Table 2 Household survey on sources of anti-malarial drugs in areas with different infection transmission intensity in western Kenya in June and December 2016
Source of antimalarial drugs | Study sites | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marani | Iguhu | Kombewa | ||||
June 2016 | December 2016 | June 2016 | December 2016 | June 2016 | December 2016 | |
< 5 age group | ||||||
 Hospital | 99 (91.7%) | 43 (93.5%) | 93 (88.6%) | 18 (66.7%) | 76 (91.6%) | 34 (44.7%) |
 Drug shop | 09 (8.3%) | 03 (6.5%) | 12 (11.4%) | 09 (32.3%) | 7 (8.4%) | 42 (55.3%) |
5–14 age group | ||||||
 Hospital | 163 (91.5%) | 77 (98.7%) | 134 (72.8%) | 62 (83.8%) | 125 (69%) | 47 (37.9%) |
 Drug shop | 15 (8.5%) | 01 (1.3%) | 50 (27.2%) | 12 (16.2%) | 56 (31%) | 77 (60.1%) |
≥15 age group | ||||||
 Hospital | 177 (82.7%) | 78 (94.0%) | 119 (56.4%) | 55 (53.9%) | 88 (37.2%) | 62 (42.5%) |
 Drug shop | 37 (7.3%) | 05 (6.0%) | 92 (43.6) | 47 (46.1%) | 148 (62.8%) | 84 (57.5%) |
Total | 500 | 207 | 500 | 203 | 500 | 346 |
 Hospital | 439 (87.8%) | 198 (95.7%) | 346 (69.2%) | 135 (66.5%) | 289 (57.8%) | 143 (41.3%) |
 Drug shop | 61 (12.2%) | 09 (4.3%) | 154 (30.8%) | 68 (33.3%) | 211 (42.2%) | 203 (58.7%) |
 Proportion of malaria self-treatment | 8.25% | 32.05% | 50.45% | |||