Given national healthcare coverage gaps, understanding treatment-seeking behaviour for
fever is crucial for the management of childhood illness and to reduce deaths. Here, we …

Background Seeking treatment in formal healthcare for uncomplicated infections is vital to
combating disease in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Healthcare treatment …

Background Fever is the clinical hallmark of malaria disease. The Roll Back Malaria (RBM)
movement promotes prompt, effective treatment of childhood fevers as a key component to …

Background Early diagnosis and treatment of childhood fever are essential for controlling
disease progression and death. However, the Treatment-seeking behaviour of caregivers is …

Introduction Fever commonly leads to healthcare seeking and hospital admission in sub-
Saharan Africa and Asia. There is only limited guidance for clinicians managing non …

Identification, stabilization, and prompt referral of children with signs of severe febrile
disease (danger signs) in rural communities are crucial for preventing complications and …

Background Characterizing healthcare-seeking patterns for acute febrile illness is critical for
generating population-based enteric fever incidence estimates from facility-based …

Background Access to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) remains limited in high
malaria-burden countries, and there are concerns that the poorest people are particularly …

Background Appropriate home management of illness is vital to efforts to control malaria.
The strategy of home management relies on caregivers to recognize malaria symptoms …

Background Health care utilization is affected by several factors including geographic
accessibility. Empirical data on utilization of health facilities is important to understanding …