Table 4.
Number of different medications purchased and type by testing status
| Outlet app | Exit interview | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # medications purchased | No test (n = 24,358) | mRDT Pos (n = 2,788) | mRDT Neg (n = 22,619) | No test, client not present (n = 4,095) | No Test* (n = 3259) | mRDT pos (n = 842) | mRDT neg (n = 1554) |
| None | 296 (1.2%) | 24 (0.9%) | 3,560 (15.7%) | 131 (3.2%) | 108 (3.3%) | 55 (6.5%) | 357 (23.0%) |
| 1–2 | 17,334 (71.2%) | 1,095 (39.3%) | 13,287 (58.8%) | 3,078 (75.2%) | 2,545 (78.1%) | 419 (49.8%) | 782 (50.3%) |
| 3–4 | 6,704 (27.5%) | 1,484 (53.2%) | 5,741 (25.4%) | 883 (21.6%) | 592(18.2%) | 347 (41.2%) | 402 (25.9%) |
| 5 + | 24 (0.1%) | 185 (6.6%) | 30 (0.1%) | 3 (0.1%) | 12 (0.4%) | 21 (2.5%) | 13 (0.8%) |
| Type of medication | |||||||
| AL | 17,509 (71.9%) | 2,383 (85.5%) | 6,872 (30.4%) | 2,866 (70.0%) | 1904 (58.4%) | 451 (53.6%) | 334 (21.5%) |
| Other ACT | 4,679 (19.2%) | 305 (10.9%) | 1,065 (4.7%) | 539 (13.2%) | 404 (12.4%) | 163 (19.4%) | 59 (3.8%) |
| Other antimalarial | 1,516 (6.2%) | 83 (3.0%) | 173 (0.8%) | 530 (12.9%) | 221 (6.8%) | 22 (2.6%) | 19 (1.2%) |
| Injection** | 263 (1.1%) | 983 (35.3%) | 253 (1.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 124 (3.8%) | 239 (28.4%) | 87 (5.6%) |
| Antibiotic | 5,049 (20.7%) | 1,176 (42.2%) | 9,181 (40.6%) | 530 (12.9%) | 800 (24.6%) | 375 (44.5%) | 659 (42.4%) |
| Painkiller | 17,725 (72.8%) | 2,236 (80.2%) | 14,420 (63.8%) | 2,881 (70.4%) | 2175 (66.7%) | 664 (78.9%) | 947 (60.9%) |
| Other | 4,566 (18.8%) | 868 (31.1%) | 8,381 (37.1%) | 625 (15.3%) | 331 (10.2%) | 136 (16.2%) | 277 (17.8%) |
*
9 clients reported invalid test results, and 29 did not know their test results. They are not included in this table.
**
Injections were often reported with the name of the pathogen it was purported to treat (as in ‘malaria injection’ or ‘typhoid injection’), unknown injection, or just ‘injection’ and rarely ‘artemether injection.’ Most often, the specific drug was not captured because the client did not carry the packaging for the interviewer to copy the drug information. All injectable drug types are reported here. The ‘Other antimalarial’ category does not include injections.