Table 3. Quality of Artemisinin-Containing Antimalarials (ACAs) at 98 outlets visited during both mystery clients and overt sampling in Enugu, Nigeria.
Sampling method | |||
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Variable | Mystery clients | Overt | p-value |
Outlets | 98 of 277 (35.4%) | 98 of 119 (82.4%) | |
Samples | 720 | 721 | |
Brands | 78 (72.9%) | 72 (67.3%) | 0.37 |
Acceptable quality | 669 (92.9%) | 665 (92.2%) | 0.62 |
Substandard | 35 (4.9%) | 46 (6.4%) | 0.21 |
Degraded | 7 (1.0%) | 5 (0.7%) | 0.56 |
Falsified | 9 (1.3%) | 5 (0.7%) | 0.28 |
Total number of brands purchased were 107