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Table 5 Pricing of anti-malarial drugs in Sierra Leone, by sector

From: Anti-malarial market and policy surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

Survey area

Number of outlets

Median price, US$ (range)

Government/Public Sector

  

   AS+AQ

3

1.56 (1.56–2.50)

   Quinine injection

8

0.31 (0.16–0.94)

   Quinine tablets

8

0.55 (0.31–0.94)

   SP

4

0.31 (0.28–0.31)

Charity

  

   AS+AQ

7

0.62 (0.31–5.31)

   Quinine injection

8

0.31 (0.09–0.47)

   Quinine tablets

9

0.62 (0.31–1.25)

   SP

8

0.31 (0.16–0.47)

   Chloroquine tablets

1

0.16 (0.16–0.16)

Private

  

   AS+AQ

28

1.56 (0.16–6.25)

   Quinine injection

8

0.47 (0.16–0.62)

   Quinine tablets

8

0.95 (0.63–1.88)

   SP

29

0.47 (0.31–0.94)

   Chloroquine tablets

24

0.16 (0.09–1.25)

  1. For tablets the price is for a course; for injections is for a single injection. The price per course is neither for adults nor for adolescents or children. Often when an adult treatment is not available; multiple adolescent or child doses are given to supplement and vice-versa.