How do malaria testing and treatment subsidies affect drug shop client expenditures? A cross-sectional analysis in Western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine how drug shop clients' expenditures are affected by subsidies for malaria diagnostic testing and for malaria treatment, and also to examine how expenditures vary by clients' malaria test result and by the number of medications they purchased.

Design

Secondary cross-sectional analysis of survey responses from a randomised controlled trial.

Setting

The study was conducted in twelve private drug shops in Western Kenya.

Participants

We surveyed 836 clients who visited the drug shops between March 2018 and October 2019 for a malaria-like illness. This included children >1 year of age if they were physically present and accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Interventions

Subsidies for malaria diagnostic testing and for malaria treatm

SUBMITTER: Saran I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9730383 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature