Table 5.
Healthcare-seeking behaviour among participants who were symptom-screen positive
| Country | Participants who were symptom- screen positive |
No action taken |
% | Location of care sought | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consulted medical facility |
% | Type of facility | Phar macy |
% | Tradi tional |
% | Other | % | Unspec ified |
% | Self- treated |
% | Un known |
% | |||||||||
| Public facility |
% | Private facility |
% | Other facility |
% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 3026 | 1932 | 64% | 848 | 28% | 628 | 74% | 199 | 23% | 21 | 2.5% | 40 | 1.3% | 3 | 0.10% | N/A | N/A | 55 | 1.8% | N/A | N/A | 148 | 4.8% |
| Gambia | 3462 | 1424 | 41% | 1706 | 49% | 1398 | 82% | 220 | 13% | 88 | 5.2% | 17 | 0.49% | 14 | 0.40% | 24 | 0.69% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 277 | 8.0% |
| Ghana | 1969 | 264 | 13% | 793 | 40% | 695 | 88% | 61 | 7.7% | 37 | 4.7% | 324 | 17% | 20 | 1.0% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 567 | 29% | 1 | 0.10% |
| Kenya† | 4137 | 2763 | 67% | 1257 | 30% | 1047 | N/A | 198 | N/A | 3 | N/A | 56 | N/A | 9 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 117 | 2.8% |
| Malawi | 2715 | 1096 | 40% | 1280 | 47% | 901 | 70% | 379 | 30% | N/A | N/A | 32 | 1.2% | 41 | 1.5% | 4 | 0.15% | N/A | N/A | 236 | 8.7% | 26 | 0.96% |
| Nigeria | 2466 | 604 | 24% | 800 | 32% | 628 | 79% | 172 | 21% | N/A | N/A | 319 | 13% | 11 | 0.45% | 9 | 0.36% | 3 | 0.12% | 680 | 28% | 40 | 1.6% |
| Rwanda† | 2855 | 1934 | 68% | 921 | 32% | 941 | N/A | 48 | N/A | 38 | N/A | 101 | N/A | 54 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Sudan | 2663 | 575 | 22% | 1308 | 49% | 1077 | 82% | 90 | 6.9% | 141 | 11% | 52 | 2.0% | 49 | 1.8% | N/A | N/A | 69 | 2.6% | N/A | N/A | 610 | 23% |
| Uganda | 2714 | 1059 | 39% | 1201 | 44% | 1038 | 86% | 146 | 12% | 17 | 1.4% | 421 | 16% | 11 | 0.41% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 22 | 0.81% | 0 | 0% |
| Tanzania | 3388 | 1688 | 50% | 481 | 14% | 445 | 93% | 36 | 7.5% | N/A | N/A | 147 | 4.3% | 11 | 0.32% | 257 | 7.6% | 155 | 4.6% | N/A | N/A | 649 | 19% |
| Zambia | 4453 | 2534 | 57% | 1829 | 41% | 1680 | 92% | 75 | 4.1% | 74 | 4.0% | 16 | 0.36% | 1 | 0.02% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 73 | 1.6% |
| Zimbabwe† | 1833 | 1130 | 62% | 486 | 26% | 438 | N/A | 45 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 17 | N/A | 13 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 217 | 12% |
N/A, not applicable.
†
In Kenya, Rwanda and Zimbabwe participants could select more than one category.