Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

Table 10.4 Use of antimalarial drugs during pregnancyPercentage of women who had a birth in the five years preceding the survey who took anti-malarial drugs during the most recent pregnancy, and thepercentage who received these drugs from various sources, by background characteristics, Zambia 2001-2002Percentage of women who tookanti-malarial drugs during pregnancy:Don’tknowname ofdrugNumberofwomenwho gavebirth inlast fiveyearsPercentage of women who got their drugs:Duringan antenatalvisitDuringanotherhealthfacility visitFromanothersourceNumberwho tookantimalarial drugsBackgroundcharacteristicAnydrugChloroquineSP/Fansidar OtherNo ANCvisit MissingResidenceUrban 30.5 28.7 0.8 0.7 0.8 1,499 76.9 20.6 1.6 0.5 0.4 444Rural 38.6 35.7 0.4 1.5 1.8 2,904 87.8 9.4 1.7 0.7 0.4 1,070ProvinceCentral 23.4 21.0 0.4 1.8 0.8 319 72.0 22.0 5.1 0.8 0.0 72Copperbelt 28.2 26.2 0.6 0.9 1.1 765 80.9 16.0 2.3 0.0 0.8 207Eastern 35.9 30.7 1.2 1.4 3.0 587 88.2 7.9 3.0 0.0 1.0 193Luapula 39.8 38.2 0.0 0.3 1.3 371 91.9 8.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 143Lusaka 31.7 29.6 0.9 1.3 0.6 590 68.2 29.1 2.0 0.7 0.0 183Northern 29.3 28.6 0.3 0.1 0.4 649 85.0 8.9 3.3 2.3 0.5 187North-Western 56.1 50.4 0.0 7.7 3.0 226 91.7 7.6 0.0 0.6 0.0 120Southern 44.2 42.0 0.5 0.7 1.4 485 87.1 10.8 0.5 1.1 0.5 207Western 51.2 48.0 0.0 0.7 2.5 412 91.8 7.7 0.0 0.5 0.0 201EducationNo education 27.8 25.2 0.0 0.8 2.0 613 89.9 7.0 1.7 1.3 0.0 158Primary 34.7 32.1 0.4 1.3 1.7 2,726 85.1 12.6 1.1 0.6 0.6 900Secondary 43.0 40.7 1.1 1.3 0.5 977 81.6 15.3 2.5 0.6 0.0 415Higher 47.7 44.4 2.5 0.5 0.5 87 (84.9) (10.6) (4.5) (0.0) 0.0 41Total 35.8 33.3 0.5 1.2 1.4 4,402 84.7 12.7 1.7 0.7 0.4 1,514Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases.Rural women (39 percent) are more likely to take anti-malarial drugs during pregnancy than urbanwomen (31 percent). North-Western (56 percent) and Western provinces (51 percent) have the highestpercentage of women that report having taken any anti-malarial drugs, while Copperbelt (28 percent) andCentral provinces (23 percent) have the lowest.The use of anti-malarial drugs increases with the level of education. However, among women whotook anti-malarial drugs during their most recent pregnancy, the proportion who obtained the drugs duringantenatal visits declines with level of education, from 90 percent of women with no education to 82 percent ofthose with some secondary education.10.2.2 Prevalence and Management of Childhood MalariaSince the major manifestation of malaria is fever or convulsions (fits), in the 2001-2002 ZDHSmothers were asked whether their children under age five had a fever/convulsion in the two weeks precedingthe survey. If fever/convulsions were reported, the mother was asked whether treatment was sought at ahealth facility, whether the child was given any medication and, if so, how soon the medication was takenafter the episode of illness started.Table 10.5 shows the percentage of children under age of five who had fever and/or convulsions inthe two weeks preceding the survey and, of those, the proportion who took anti-malarial drugs and theproportion receiving treatment on the same or next day.158 │ Malaria