Table 5.
Types of antibiotics dispensed without prescription by drug outlet staff for each scenario
| Antibiotics provided for each case | Number of interactions per scenario N (%) |
Total N (%) (n=495) |
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| Child diarrhoea (n=165) |
Presumptive TB (n=165) |
URTI (n=165) |
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| No antibiotics provided | 87 (52.7%) | 32 (19.4%) | 34 (20.6%) | 153 (30.9%) |
| Amoxicillin | 13 (7.9%) | 83 (50.3%) | 56 (33.9%) | 152 (30.7%) |
| Trimethoprim | 43 (26.1%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.6%) | 45 (9.1%) |
| Fradiomycin/gramicidin (lozenges) | 0 | 0 | 39 (23.6%) | 39 (7.8%) |
| Cefadroxil | 2 (1.2%) | 22 (13.3%) | 11 (6.7%) | 35 (7.1%) |
| Ciprofloxacin | 0 | 10 (6.1%) | 7 (4.2%) | 17 (3.4%) |
| Cefixime | 0 | 10 (6.1%) | 5 (3.0%) | 15 (3%) |
| Nifuroxazide | 10 (6.1%) | 0 | 0 | 10 (2.0%) |
| Ampicillin | 0 | 4 (2.4%) | 1 (0.6%) | 5 (1%) |
| Amoxicillin and fradiomycin/gramicidin | 0 | 0 | 5 (3.0%) | 5 (1%) |
| Sulfamethoxazole | 4 (2.4%) | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.8%) |
| Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and nifuroxazide | 3 (1.8%) | 0 | 0 | 3 (0.6%) |
| Metronidazole | 2 (1.2%) | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.4%) |
| Erythromycin | 0 | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.6%) | 2 (0.4%) |
| Thiamphenicol | 0 | 0 | 2 (1.2%) | 2 (0.4%) |
| Levofloxacin | 0 | 2 (1.2%) | 0 | 2 (0.4%) |
| Lincomycin | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.2%) |
| Amoxicillin and ciprofloxacin | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.2%) |
| Amoxicillin and cefadroxil | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.2%) |
| Cefadroxil and nifuroxazide | 1 (0.6%) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.2%) |