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Only 16 percent of all children
under five with cough and rapid breathing
were taken to a health facility or provider.
There are differences in the proportion of
children with ARI symptoms taken to a
health facility by child’s age; children age
6-11 months and 12-23 months are more
likely to be taken to a health facility than
other children. Male children are slightly
more likely than female children to be
taken to a health facility or provider. The
proportion of children with cough and
rapid breathing who were taken to a health
facility is much larger (41 percent) in
urban areas than in rural areas (14 percent).
Forty-nine percent of children in
the Somali Region and 58 percent of children
in Addis Ababa with ARI symptoms
were taken to a health facility, compared
with 12 percent in the Amhara and Tigray
regions. Children of women with secondary
and higher education visit a health
facility more frequently than other children
when they have cough and rapid breathing.
10.15 FEVER
Fever is a major manifestation of
malaria and other acute infections in children.
Malaria and fever contribute to high
levels of malnutrition and mortality. While
fever can occur year-round, malaria is
more prevalent after the end of the rainy
season. For this reason, temporal factors
must be taken into account when interpreting
fever as an indicator of malaria prevalence.
Since malaria is a major contributory
cause of death in infancy and childhood
in many developing countries, the socalled
presumptive treatment of fever with
antimalarial medication is advocated in
many countries where malaria is endemic.
Table 10.18 shows the percent distribution
of children under five with fever during the
two weeks preceding the survey by source
of treatment and selected background
characteristics.
Table 10.17 Prevalence and treatment of acute respiratory infection
Percentage of children under five years who were ill with a cough
accompanied by short, rapid breathing (symptoms of ARI) in the two
weeks preceding the survey, and percentage of children with
symptoms of ARI taken to a health facility or provider, by background
characteristics, Ethiopia 2000
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Percentage
of children
with symptoms
Percentage of ARI
of chil- taken to
dren with a health
Background symptoms facility or
characteristic of ARI provider 1 Number
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Child's age