Quality of malaria case management at outpatient health facilities in Angola.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Angola's malaria case-management policy recommends treatment with artemether-lumefantrine (AL). In 2006, AL implementation began in Huambo Province, which involved training health workers (HWs), supervision, delivering AL to health facilities, and improving malaria testing with microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). Implementation was complicated by a policy that was sometimes ambiguous.

Methods

Fourteen months after implementation began, a cross-sectional survey was conducted in 33 outpatient facilities in Huambo Province to assess their readiness to manage malaria and the quality of malaria case-management for patients of all ages. Consultations were observed, patients were interviewed and re-examined, and HWs were interviewed.

Results

Ninety-three

SUBMITTER: Rowe AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795764 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature