Table 2.
Time to treatment of febrile children aged less than 5 years, n (%)
| Time to treatment in previous 2 weeks | Experimental district | Control district | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before HBM (n = 80) | After HBM (n = 54) | P | Before HBM (n = 104) | After HBM (n = 86) | P | |
| Treated within 24 h in a formal healthcare source (health facility or DD) | 4 (5.0) | 29 (53.7) | < 0.001 | 8 (7.7) | 24 (28.0) | < 0.001 |
| Other modalities | 76 (95.0) | 25 (46.3) | 96 (92.3) | 62 (72.0) | ||
HBM: home-based management of malaria; Health facility: dispensary, health center, hospital; DD: drug distributor