Table 4.
Benin 2013 n=189 |
Burkina Faso 2013 n=686 |
DRC 2014 n=1555 |
Mauritania 2013 n=232 |
Sierra Leone 2014 n=106 | Togo 2012 n=101 |
Uganda 2013 n=209 |
Zimbabwe 2015 n=275 |
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% of facilities with child health services | 93 | 95 | 88 | 72 | 97 | 99 | 93 | 99 |
Among facilities offering child health services, percentage that had the essential medicines | ||||||||
Amoxicillin | 56 | 87 | 47 | 56 | 89 | 79 | 28 | 86 |
Ampicillin injectable | 82 | 88 | 49 | 54 | 25 | 75 | 36 | 2 |
Ceftriaxone | 38 | 76 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 66 | 33 | 31 |
Gentamicin | 71 | 70 | 11 | 48 | 29 | 70 | 51 | 0 |
Benzyl penicillin | 9 | 9 | 28 | 20 | 50 | 16 | 36 | 80 |
ORS | 69 | 81 | 54 | 49 | 88 | 82 | 73 | 93 |
Zinc | 66 | 31 | 21 | 13 | 81 | 50 | 65 | 95 |
ACT | 84 | 86 | 59 | 19 | 67 | 84 | 82 | 96 |
Artesunate | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 8 | 2 |
Vitamin A | 61 | 38 | 25 | 39 | 68 | 76 | 75 | 95 |
Morphine | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Paracetamol | 57 | 82 | 25 | 51 | 70 | 66 | 34 | 64 |
Offering services and with all 12 essential medicines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mean availability of the 12 medicines (%) | 50 | 54 | 28 | 30 | 50 | 57 | 44 | 54 |
ACT, artemisinin-based combination therapy; ORS, oral rehydration salts.