Impact of mass distribution of free long-lasting insecticidal nets on childhood malaria morbidity: The Togo National Integrated Child Health Campaign

Table 3 Reported history, health care seeking behavior, malaria and anaemia treatment in 2004 versus 2005 by district in 5331 children aged less than 5 years.

	Southern Coastal plain (Yoto)			Central Plateaux (Ogou)			Northern Savannah (Tone)
	2004 %	2005 %	RR (95%CI)	2004 %	2005 %	RR (95%CI)	2004 %	2005 %	RR (95%CI)
History previous 2 weeks ¹
Febrile + HC sought²	13.1	21.7	1.66 (1.05-2.62)	26.6	8.7	0.33 (0.20-0.53)	28.0	23.6	0.84 (0.71-1.01)
Took antimalarials	34.0	30.9	0.91 (0.63-1.31)	39.4	34.3	0.87 (0.63-1.20)	44.7	40.0	0.89 (0.69-1.16)
Took iron	3.3	9.5	2.87 (1.36-6.08)	2.5	1.7	0.68 (0.29-1.58)	3.7	2.6	0.69 (0.30-1.61)
History of severe illness in previous 2 months
Hospital admitted³	2.6	2.2		0.6	2.1		3.1	1.8
Blood transfusion⁴	1.2	0.1		0.3	0.1		0.5	0.2

RR = relative risk; CI = confidence interval
¹ The prevalence and RR were estimated using a binomial regression analysis with a log-link function, taking into account clustering at village level and adjusting for the age of the child, the socio-economic status of the household, and the education level of the caretaker. ² HC = Health care. ³ Rao-Scott Chi-square test, taking into account clustering at village level. ⁴ The study was not powered to test for differences in these small numbers.

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