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Table 1 Availability of anti-malarial and malaria blood testing among all public sector outlets screened

From: The malaria testing and treatment landscape in Benin

 

Public health facility

CHW

Total public sectora

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

Availability of:

N = 298

N = 145

N = 536

 Any anti-malarial

95.0 (90.3, 97.4)

59.4 (40.2, 76.1)

72.6 (58.1, 83.5)

 Quality-assured ACT

89.9 (83.9, 93.8)

54.8 (32.2, 75.7)

59.4 (43.6, 73.4)

 Quality ACT with the ‘green leaf’ logo

3.0 (0.9, 9.8)

0.6 (0.1, 4.3)

4.7 (2.0, 10.8)

 Sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine

73.9 (63.9, 81.9)

0.0 (–)

20.6 (14.9, 27.7)

 Oral quinine

87.7 (82.7, 91.3)

2.3 (0.4, 11.7)

33.2 (25.0, 42.6)

 Chloroquine

0.4 (0.1, 1.6)

0.0 (–)

1.3 (0.5, 3.5)

 Oral artemisinin monotherapy

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

 Artesunate injection

5.3 (1.6, 16.6)

0.0 (–)

1.3 (0.4, 4.1)

 Artemether injection

6.2 (2.1, 16.7)

0.0 (–)

5.5 (2.5, 11.8)

 Quinine injection

79.3 (69.5, 86.5)

4.5 (0.8, 22.1)

32.2 (23.9, 41.9)

Availability of:

N = 298

N = 145

N = 536

 Any diagnostic test

94.7 (90.1, 97.2)

68.4 (47.3, 84.0)

69.4 (56.9, 79.6)

 Microscopy

28.7 (21.4, 37.2)

0.9 (0.1, 5.1)

8.9 (6.0, 13.0)

 RDT

94.4 (89.8, 96.9)

68.4 (47.3, 84.0)

68.3 55.8, 78.7)

Readiness for malaria case management:

N = 298

N = 145

N = 536

 Quality-assured ACT and malaria testing available

89.0 (82.7, 93.2)

49.7 (28.4, 71.2)

53.7 (39.2, 67.6)

 Quality-assured ACT no malaria testing available

1.0 (0.2, 3.6)

5.1 (2.3, 11.0)

5.7 (3.1, 10.2)

  1. aIncludes public non-for profit sector (N = 93)