Evaluating malaria case management at public health facilities in two provinces in Angola

Malaria Journal

Table 5 Quality of counselling in patients prescribed an ACT as assessed during exit interviews in health facility surveys in Huambo and Uíge Provinces, Angola, 2016

	Huambo		Uíge
	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Given first dose at health facility	4	0.8–15	45	22–70
Given instructions on how to take ACT	85	57–96	89	76–96
Able to correctly recite dosing schedule^a	90	78–96	85	77–91
Received instructions to
Take with food
AL	34	15–59	19	11–31
DP	29	12–56	98	88–100
Take on empty stomach
AL	3	0.6–13	7	4–14
DP	29	12–56	0	–
Complete all doses	72	51–86	58	41–74
Return if worse	44	25–64	26	15–40
Return if no improvement	38	21–58	31	20–44

ACT artemisinin-based combination therapy, AL artemether-lumefantrine, DP dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine
^aCorrect number of tablets per dose, doses per day, and total duration of treatment. Calculated only for subset of patients prescribed the correct dose

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