Table 3.

Reported malaria morbidity and general morbidity in children aged less than 5 years, n (%)

	Experimental district			Control district
	Before HBM (n= 178)	After HBM (n= 188)	P	Before HBM (n= 184)	After HBM (n= 188)	P
Malaria morbidity (febrile children in previous 2 weeks)
Febrile children	80 (44.9)	54 (28.7)	< 0.01	104 (56.5)	86 (45.7)	< 0.05
General morbidity (sick children in previous 2 weeks)
Sick children (all disease causes)	106 (59.5)	101 (53.7)	0.260	123 (66.9)	121 (64.4)	0.613

HBM: home-based management of malaria