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Table 4 Stock of essential diagnostics and medicines on the days of the survey by LGA

From: Evaluation of a capacity building intervention on malaria treatment for under-fives in rural health facilities in Niger State, Nigeria

 

Katcha

N = 14

95% CI

Gbako

N = 14

95% CI

p-value

n

%

n

%

Proportion of facilities where neither AL nor ASAQ were available on any of the days the facility was visited

 

7

43.3

17.7, 73.1

0

  

0.031

Proportion of facilities where neither AL nor ASAQ was available for < 10% of the days the facility was visited

 

7

43.3

17.7, 73.1

2

15.2

0.8, 45.9

0.166

Proportion of facilities where RDTs were not available on any of the days the facility was visited

 

3

24.3

6.8, 58.6

6

45.6

19.6, 74.3

0.186

 

Mean

SD

 

Mean

SD

  

Mean % daily availability of ASAQ

41

14.5

 

25

8.1

 

0.337

Mean % daily availability of AL

56

14.3

 

47

8.9

 

0.594

Mean % daily availability of ASAQ or AL

56

14.3

 

50

8.2

 

0.730

Mean % daily availability of RDTs

67

11.5

 

42

11.8

 

0.136

  1. LGA local government area, CI confidence intervals, SD standard deviation, ASAQ artesunate amodiaquine, AL arthemeter–lumefantrine, RDT rapid diagnostic tests