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Table 2 Availability of anti-malarial and malaria blood testing among the private outlets

From: The malaria testing and treatment landscape in Benin

 

Private for-profit facility

Pharmacy

General retailer

Itinerant drug vendor

Total private sectora

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

Among all screened outlets:

N = 262

N = 176

N = 5622

N = 632

N = 6724

 Availability of any anti-malarial

85.8 (77.6, 91.3)

94.6 (76.5, 99.0)

27.5 (21.9, 34.0)

67.7 (38.8, 87.4)

33.3 (30.2, 36.7)

Among anti-malarial stocking outlets, availability of:

N = 222

N = 170

N = 1388

N = 468

N = 2278

 Quality-assured ACT

36.4 (23.0, 52.2)

90.0 (75.0, 96.5)

35.4 (27.9, 43.8)

34.2 (22.3, 48.4)

36.1 (27.7, 45.5)

 Quality-assured AL

35.9 (22.7, 51.6)

89.5 (74.9, 96.1)

35.1 (27.5, 43.6)

34.2 (22.3, 48.4)

35.9 (27.5, 45.3)

 Quality ACT with the ‘green leaf’ logo

25.0 (15.5, 37.6)

0.1 (0.0, 0.8)

33.2 (25.7, 41.7)

28.9 (17.1, 44.6)

31.3 (23.0, 41.0)

 Non quality-assured ACT

19.3 (13.3, 27.2)

100.0 (–)

12.7 (8.4, 18.9)

13.0 (7.5, 21.6)

14.8 (10.6, 20.3)

 Sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine

24.6 (16.2, 35.5)

56.6 (39.5, 72.3)

29.4 (19.8, 41.4)

68.1 (42.9, 85.8)

36.4 (22.1, 53.7)

 Oral quinine

70.5 (64.0, 76.3)

67.6 (46.7, 83.2)

34.3 (21.1, 50.5)

60.1 (36.1, 80.1)

42.5 (26.1, 60.7)

 Chloroquine

11.1

0.0 (–)

71.3 (54.7, 83.6)

38.4 (19.0, 62.4)

59.2 (39.9, 76.1)

 Other non-artemisinin

3.4 (1.3, 8.4)

15.6 (8.6, 26.6)

2.1 (1.3, 3.4)

8.6 (5.7, 12.8)

3.6 (2.1, 6.0)

 Oral artemisinin monotherapy

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

 Artesunate injection

1.5 (0.5, 4.3)

23.9 (14.5, 36.8)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.5 (0.2, 0.9)

 Artemether injection

28.8 (19.9, 39.7)

70.3 (55.5, 81.8)

0.8 (0.3, 2.2)

0.0 (–)

4.1 (2.9, 5.8)

 Quinine injection

82.7 (75.7, 88.0)

30.4 (19.0, 44.9)

1.7 (0.8, 3.7)

0.0 (–)

8.7 (6.4, 11.8)

Among outlets stocking anti-malarials today or within the past 3 months, availability of:

N = 233

N = 170

N = 1530

N = 496

N = 2459

Any diagnostic test

39.2 (30.6, 48.5)

5.0 (1.4, 16.0)

0.1 (0.0, 0.3)

0.0 (–)

3.3 (2.3, 4.7)

Malaria microscopy

17.9 (8.7, 33.2)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

0.0 (–)

1.5 (0.8, 2.8)

RDT

26.1 (16.8, 38.3)

5.0 (1.4, 16.0)

0.1 (0.0, 0.3)

0.0 (–)

2.2 (1.3, 3.8)

  1. aTotal private sector includes 32 drug stores