Table 1

Anti-malarial prescriptions to all patients, presumptive malarial and non-malarial patients.

no of prescribed AM*

%

no of patients receiving AM

%

malarial patients

%

non-malarial patients§

%


total AM*

73 779

100

53 391

100

39 998

74.9

12 656

23.7

CQ1(total)

41 103

55.7

41 103

77.0

29 452

71.7

11 058

26.9

Q2(total)

25 546

34.6

25 546

47.8

23 783

93.1

1 570

6.1

CQ+Q3

16 391

22.2

16 391

30.7

15 608

95.2

717

4.4

SP4(total)

3 785

5.1

3 785

7.1

3 275

86.5

487

12.9

AQ5(total)

3 335

4.5

3 335

6.2

2 845

85.3

487

14.6

AQ+SP6

1 828

2.5

1 828

3.4

1 658

90.7

168

9.2


*AM: Anti-malarials, §patients with unknown clinical diagnosis are excluded.

1CQ (total): total number of chloroquine treatments (CQ prescribed alone and CQ+Q), 2Q (total): total number of quinine treatments (Q prescribed alone and CQ+Q), 3CQ+Q: CQ and Q prescribed together (Q as first treatment and CQ as relay treatment), 4SP (total): total number of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine treatments, 5AQ (total): total number of amodiaquine treatments, 6AQ+SP: bi-therapy with AQ and SP.

Munier et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8:83   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-83

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