From: Country size bias in global health: cross-country comparison of malaria policy and foreign aid
National intervention policy and strategy adoption | Factor1 | Factor2 | Factor3 | Factor4 | Factor5 | Factor6 |
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ITNs/LLINs are distributed free of charge | -0.31 | -0.22 | -0.59 | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.06 |
ITNs/LLINs are distributed to all age groups | 0.03 | 0.58 | -0.11 | 0.66 | 0.01 | -0.40 |
ITNs/LLINs distributed through mass campaigns to all age groups | -0.47 | 0.41 | -0.5 | 0.18 | 0.29 | -0.31 |
IRS is recommended by malaria control programme | -0.16 | 0.68 | 0.11 | -0.47 | 0.19 | -0.34 |
DDT is used for IRS | -0.03 | 0.57 | 0.47 | -0.04 | 0.61 | 0.25 |
IPTp is used to prevent malaria during pregnancy | -0.66 | 0.05 | 0.6 | 0.38 | -0.15 | 0.06 |
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC or IPTc) | -0.67 | -0.08 | 0.65 | 0.26 | -0.02 | -0.02 |
Patients of all ages should get diagnostic test | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.66 | 0.5 | -0.05 | 0.03 |
Malaria diagnosis is free of charge in the public sector | 0.67 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 0.33 | 0.43 | 0.34 |
RDTs are used at community level | -0.41 | 0.35 | -0.43 | -0.11 | -0.07 | 0.61 |
G6PD test is recommended before treatment with primaquine | 0.40 | 0.25 | -0.31 | 0.49 | -0.54 | 0.11 |
ACT for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum | -0.40 | 0.82 | 0.08 | -0.08 | -0.37 | 0.02 |
Pre-referral treatment with quinine or artemether IM or artesunate supp | -0.70 | 0.32 | -0.19 | 0.15 | -0.12 | 0.21 |
Single dose of primaquine is used as gametocidal medicine for Plasmodium falciparum | 0.68 | 0.53 | -0.01 | -0.05 | 0.02 | 0.10 |
Primaquine is used for radical treatment of Plasmodium vivax | 0.91 | 0.01 | -0.17 | 0.11 | 0.05 | -0.13 |
Directly observed treatment with primaquine is undertaken | 0.66 | 0.43 | 0.10 | -0.22 | -0.29 | 0.04 |