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Table 2 Use of self-medication practices

From: Severe malaria in Gabon: epidemiological, clinical and laboratory features in Amissa Bongo Hospital of Franceville

Preventives measures

 

Practice of self-medication

 Number

220

  Yes, n (%)

171 (77.7)

  No, n (%)

24 (10.9)

  Don't know, n (%)

25 (11.4)

Anti-malarial drugs used in self-medication

 Number

171

  ACT*, n (%)

99 (57.8)

  Quinines, n (%)

33 (19.30)

  Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, n (%)

1 (0.58)

  Other (non-antimalarial drug)

38 (22.22)

  1. *ACT artemisinin-based combination therapy