Treatment for malaria is provided at all health centres, and the spraying of houses in mosquito-breeding areas is carried out regularly.
Patients diagnosed as having malaria were provided Coartem for treatment.
Furthermore, most treatment for malaria is provided outside the formal healthcare sector, usually by shopkeepers where treatment is often inappropriate [7].
The criteria chosen by each study to define severe malaria is provided in Supplementary Table S2.
While folate/ iron supplementation, tetanus vaccination and IPT of malaria were provided by the vast majority of ANC facilities, detection and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was only available at a third of ANC facilities at the time of the census.
All patients presenting with signs or symptoms of malaria had a rapid diagnostic test performed, and malaria treatment was provided if positive.
Malaria treatment was provided per study protocol to almost all children with malaria (99.0%).
After the blood draw, malaria treatment was provided following international standards.
One volunteer was withdrawn post-CHMI due to a work schedule conflict and early termination anti-malaria therapy was provided (Group A).
Malaria parasitological diagnosis was provided at 125 (51.2%) facilities on the survey day, more commonly through malaria microscopy (42.2%) than non-expired RDTs (16.0%).
