Effectiveness of antimalarial interventions in Nigeria: Evidence from facility-level longitudinal data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of a program of antimalarial interventions implemented in 2010-2013 in Niger State, Nigeria.

Data sources

Utilization reports from 99 intervention and 51 non-intervention health facilities from the Niger State Malaria Elimination Program, supplemented by data on facility-level characteristics from the Niger State Primary Health Care Development Agency and Local Government Malaria Control units.

Study design

Estimated with mixed-effects negative binomial modeling, a difference-in-differences method was used to quantify the impact of the program on the number of febrile illness cases and confirmed malaria cases. Potential confounding factors, non-stationarity, seasonality, and autocorrelation were explicitly accounted for.

Data

SUBMITTER: Witvorapong N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature