Table 2 Type of the pharmaceutical medicine cited by the household (PM exclusively group and HM + PM group) used to treat “Palu” at Cotonou and Lobogo, Benin, 2016
Type of pharmaceutical drugs | Cotonou | Lobogo | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HM + PM Group | PM exclusively Group | HM + PM Group | PM exclusively Group | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
ACT | 117 | 35.45 | 89 | 48.90 | 307 | 59.96 | 22 | 62.86 |
Quinine | 95 | 28.79 | 41 | 22.53 | 23 | 4.49 | 1 | 2.86 |
Chloroquine | 29 | 8.79 | 7 | 3.85 | 47 | 9.18 | 2 | 5.71 |
Sulfadoxine-pyrimetamine | 23 | 6.97 | 14 | 7.69 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 |
Apipalua | 4 | 1.21 | 3 | 1.65 | 1 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 |
Paracetamol | 35 | 10.61 | 21 | 11.54 | 99 | 19.34 | 4 | 11.43 |
Others | 13 | 3.94 | 5 | 2.75 | 4 | 0.78 | 0 | 0.00 |
Forget the name of the PM | 12 | 3.64 | 2 | 1.10 | 31 | 6.05 | 6 | 17.14 |
Total | 330 | 182 | 512 | 35 | ||||