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Table 3 Percentage of all screened public health facilitiesa with RDT and microscopy available on the day of the survey, over time

From: Testing times: trends in availability, price, and market share of malaria diagnostics in the public and private healthcare sector across eight sub-Saharan African countries from 2009 to 2015

 

n

% Outlets stocking RDT (95% CI)

% Outlets with microscopy available (95% CI)

West and Central Africa

 Benin

  2011

257

30.5 (21.3, 41.7)

8.8 (5.0, 15.1)

  2014

263

75.4 (64.6, 83.8)***

17.8 (11.4, 26.8)*

 Kinshasa (DRC)

  2009

27

2.9 (0.5, 14.2)

86.2 (66.1, 95.3)

  2013

89

23.5 (13.3, 38.1)

89.3 (81.0, 94.3)

  2015

277

50.4 (39.9, 61.0)***

91.2 (84.5, 95.1)

 Katanga (DRC)

  2013

97

47.8 (34.0, 61.9)

47.6 (36.3, 59.1)

  2015

284

84.7 (77.2, 90.0)***

30.8 (24.2, 38,2)*

 Nigeria

  2009

249

8.6 (1.8, 32.9)

28.5 (10.7, 56.9)

  2011

109

14.9 (7.5, 27.7)

24.7 (14.8, 38.4)

  2013

711

43.0 (29.6, 57.6)

12.6 (5.8, 25.4)

  2015

210

83.4 (72.7, 91.0)***

27.8 (15.9, 44.2)***

East Africa

 Kenya

  2010

443

8.7 (4.6, 16.0)

49.8 (43.2, 56.4)

  2011

474

18.5 (9.7, 32.4)

44.6 (36.1, 53.5)

  2014

528

62.6 (55.6, 69.0)***

66.4 (62.2, 70.4)***

 Tanzania

  2010

87

20.8 (10.1, 38.0)

28.1 (20.0, 38.0)

  2011

64

38.6 (23.5, 56.3)

25.0 (15.4, 37.8)

  2014

336

76.2 (69.4, 81.9)***

32.3 (26.2, 39.0)

 Uganda

  2010

811

4.0 (1.7, 9.2)

36.2 (28.8, 44.3)

  2011

718

51.2 (44.7, 57.6)

47.8 (41.5, 54.2)

  2013

728

79.5 (71.8, 85.5)

41.4 (36.1, 47.0)

  2015

334

83.6 (75.4, 89.5)***

59.0 (51.1, 66.6)***

Southern Africa

 Madagascar

  2010

524

87.4 (81.3, 91.6)

3.7 (2.1, 6.3)

  2011

669

89.7 (84.9, 93.1)

5.7 (4.6, 7.2)

  2013

620

87.4 (82.7, 91.0)

14.7 (7.7, 26.2)

  2015

273

72.0 (62.0, 80.3)**

3.6 (2.3, 5.5)

 Zambia

  2009

178

85.7 (70.4, 93.8)

40.6 (30.5, 51.6)

  2011

294

68.4 (55.4, 79.0)

35.8 (24.9, 48.5)

  2014

498

89.4 (83.8, 93.2)

22.8 (14.3, 34.3)*

  1. aInclusive of government and non-government not-for-profit hospitals, clinics, health centers and health posts
  2. CI Confidence Interval
  3. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001, in reference to baseline year