Table 5.

Familiarity with and preferences for effective treatment among caregivers of children under five with fever in the past two weeks

	Benin	DRC	Madagascar	Nigeria	Uganda	Zambia
	N = 885	N = 2, 331	N = 1, 970	N = 2, 833	N = 1, 452	N = 1, 727
% Caregivers who name the national first-line drug when asked to list anti-malarials that they have heard of	13.5	3.1	3.5	6.9	57.2	81.1
% Caregivers who name the national first-line drug as the most effective anti-malarial for children under five	9.8	2.0	1.8	4.3	35.1	49.2
	N = 381	N = 1, 186	N = 965	N = 1, 097	N = 898	N = 709
% Children treated with an anti-malarial that received a drug requested by their caregiver	37.5	35.8	51.9	21.3	14.1	7.9
Type of anti-malarial received, among children that received an anti-malarial requested by caregiver1	N = 143	N = 450	N = 549	N = 238	N = 127	N = 57
% Non-artemisinin monotherapy	91.6	88.4	95.7	87.8	63.0	75.0
% ACT	10.5	9.2	4.7	7.6	38.1	22.6
% Artemisinin monotherapy	0.0	3.1	n/a	7.6	0.6	2.4

1 Categories are not mutually exclusive as some children received more than one anti-malarial