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Table 5 National intervention policy and and strategy adoption with factor loadings

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

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

  1. *ACT artemisinin-based combination therapy, DDT dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, G6PD glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, IM intramuscular, IPTc intermittent preventive treatment in children, IPTp intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy, IRS indoor residual spraying, ITN insecticide-treated mosquito net, LLIN long-lasting insecticidal net, RDT rapid diagnostic test, SMC seasonal malaria chemoprevention; factor loadings: factor 1-6