Impact of Improving Community-Based Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment on Household Costs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Community health workers (CHWs) were trained in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda to diagnose febrile children using malaria rapid diagnostic tests, and treat positive malaria cases with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and those who could not take oral medicines with rectal artesunate. We quantified the impact of this intervention on private household costs for childhood febrile illness.

Methods

 Households with recent febrile illness in a young child in previous 2 weeks were selected randomly before and during the intervention and data obtained on household costs for the illness episode. Household costs included consultation fees, registration costs, user fees, diagnosis, bed, drugs, food, and transport costs. Private household costs per episode befo

SUBMITTER: Castellani J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146695 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature