Sustainable universal salt iodization in low-income countries – time to re-think strategies?

<p>In countries with low tech infrastructures, even low tech salt iodation equipment will fail. This paper argues for the use of even lower technology approaches in such settings.</p

Additional file 3: of Drug seller adherence to clinical protocols with integrated management of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea at drug shops in Uganda

The sick child job aid 2. This is a visual aid that contains the iCCM treatment algorithm. It is printed in A3 size and displayed in the drug shop for easy reference when managing children

Additional file 2: of Drug seller adherence to clinical protocols with integrated management of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea at drug shops in Uganda

The sick child job aid 1. This is a visual aid that contains the iCCM treatment algorithm. It is printed in A3 size and displayed in the drug shop for easy reference when managing children

Additional file 1: of Drug seller adherence to clinical protocols with integrated management of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea at drug shops in Uganda

The ICCM register: This is a copy of the standard book, where drug shop attendants (and community health workers) record all children seen with symptoms of malaria, pneumonia or diarrhoea

Symptoms and management of fever, cough with fast breathing and diarrhoea in children below 5 years of age at drug shop exit interviews (survey adjusted).

<p>Symptoms and management of fever, cough with fast breathing and diarrhoea in children below 5 years of age at drug shop exit interviews (survey adjusted).</p

Survey adjusted appropriateness of management of illness within the last 2 weeks, from household survey.

<p>Survey adjusted appropriateness of management of illness within the last 2 weeks, from household survey.</p

Study design and timing of interventions and data collection.

<p>Study design and timing of interventions and data collection.</p

The effect of the intervention on treatment using antibiotics, ACTs and ORS/zinc, by survey-adjusted prevalence ratios using difference in difference analysis and generalized linear models.

<p>Note: Adjustment for various possible confounders including age, caretaker's gender, caretaker's highest education, employment etc did not change most results. Adjusted results are reported below only where changes were statistically significant.</p>a<p>Computed between intervention and control, at end-line only because of presence of zero cells at baseline.</p>b<p>Adjusted for child-age (un-adjusted  = 14.3, 95% CI 4.8–42.4).</p>c<p>Adjusted for employment status (unadjusted  = 4.1, 95%CI 1.8–9.2).</p>d<p>Additional febrile children were treated with quinine (23%), chloroquine (5%) and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (4%).</p><p>The effect of the intervention on treatment using antibiotics, ACTs and ORS/zinc, by survey-adjusted prevalence ratios using difference in difference analysis and generalized linear models.</p

Appropriateness of management of children at drug shops, from direct observation in the intervention area (N = 49).

<p>Appropriateness of management of children at drug shops, from direct observation in the intervention area (N = 49).</p

MOESM1 of Integrated community case management by drug sellers influences appropriate treatment of paediatric febrile illness in South Western Uganda: a quasi-experimental study

Additional file 1. Proportions of child cases that presented with fever, pneumonia symptoms and non-bloody diarrhoea, were diagnostically tested and were given medicines, at drug shops in South Western Uganda from 2013 to 2014, respectively