Abstract
Background Malaria is the major health problem in Nigeria, accounting for 60% of outpatient consultations and 30% of hospital admission [1]. The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) of Nigeria has adopted cost-effective malaria control interventions as tools for achieving ambitious objective of halving malaria burden by 2013 as contained in the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP). The interventions include prompt and effective case management, Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) and Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) while parasitological diagnosis is an adjunct to effective case management. The coverage for these interventions is very low as only 8% of households own ITN, 1.1% of under five children with malaria have access to Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) within 24 hours of onset of fever and only 6.5% of pregnant women have access to 2 doses of IPT [2].
Highlights
Malaria is the major health problem in Nigeria, accounting for 60% of outpatient consultations and 30% of hospital admission [1]
There was increase in access to all the malaria control measures studied between 2003 and 2008: ownership of any bed nets (11.8% to 16.9%), under-5 children who slept under treated bed net (1.4% to 5.3%), under-5 children with fever who received non-Artemisinin-Combination Therapies (ACT) (9.6% to 27.5%) and pregnant women who received intermittent preventive treatment
The pattern of inequalities of use treated bed nets were similar those observed in ownership of treated net
Summary
Malaria is the major health problem in Nigeria, accounting for 60% of outpatient consultations and 30% of hospital admission [1]. The interventions include prompt and effective case management, Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) and Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) while parasitological diagnosis is an adjunct to effective case management. The coverage for these interventions is very low as only 8% of households own ITN, 1.1% of under five children with malaria have access to Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) within 24 hours of onset of fever and only 6.5% of pregnant women have access to 2 doses of IPT [2]
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