Table 2.
Proportion (N) of outlets censused with at least one anti-malarial in stock on the day of interview, by sector, outlet type and country¹
| Public Sector/Not-for-Profit | Private Sector | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health Facility |
Community Health Worker | Private not-for-profit Health Facility | Total Public/Not-for-Profit |
Private Health Facility | Pharmacy | Drug Store |
Grocery Store |
Other Outlet Types | Total Private | All | ||
| Shop/Kiosk/Bar/Market Stall | Itinerant Provider | |||||||||||
| Benin | 95.4 (182) | - | 91.2 (47) |
94.0 (229) |
84.2 (118) |
96.7 (118) |
- | 30.5 (433) |
34.4 (691) |
42.7 (81) |
36.3 (1, 441) |
39.0 (1, 670) |
| DRC | 96.8 (111) | - | 97.2 (33) |
96.9 (144) |
75.7 (204) |
100.0 (33) |
96.5 (1, 089) |
- | 1.7 (2, 245) |
- | 24.9 (3, 571) |
28.4 (3, 715) |
| Madagascar | 96.8 (531) | 26.8 (226) |
80.6 (7) |
40.4 (764) |
87.6 (87) |
99.6 (69) |
97.4 (263) |
33.1 (5, 056) |
1.1 (530) |
- | 33.9 (6, 005) |
35.0 (6, 769) |
| Nigeria | 91.8 (255) | 80.0 (19) |
98.7 (11) | 89.2 (285) |
91.4 (405) |
99.5 (409) |
95.6 (1, 031) |
3.8 (2, 141) |
2.5 (1, 164) |
70.2 (21) |
25.7 (5, 171) |
26.6 (5, 456) |
| Uganda | 95.4 (525) | 39.8 (90) |
88.6 (11) | 69.6 (626) |
96.2 (208) |
99.3 (97) |
96.4 (398) |
0.4 (3, 747) |
0.0 (191) |
- | 13.9 (4.641) |
17.0 (5, 267) |
| Zambia | 97.4 (165) | - | 100.0 (16) | 97.8 (181) |
92.3 (34) |
100.0 (50) |
76.5 (165) |
3.7 (1, 946) |
0.4 (997) |
14.7 (5) |
6.3 (3, 197) |
9.5 (3, 378) |
¹In Benin the drug store category was deemed redundant as, strictly, there were no unregulated private-sector medicine vendors operating from formal structures (such as permanent buildings). In Benin, such medicine selling outlets should be registered and appear on the list of pharmacies. Unregulated vendors do operate however, often in markets, and were thus captured by the market stall and market shop classifications. In the DRC, grocery stores, as defined for all other countries, were very rare. In the DRC and Zambia, community health workers were not targeted for inclusion due to difficulties in ascertaining their presence in the clusters. In Benin, community health workers were not formally included in the Ministry of Health structure at the time of data collection [25]. It is expected that community health workers will be included in later survey rounds, as their numbers increase and as the Ministry of Health makes moves to include them explicitly in national policy [26].