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Abolishing Fees at Health Centers in the Context of Community Case Management of Malaria: What Effects on Treatment-Seeking Practices for Febrile Children in Rural Burkina Faso?

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  • Thomas Druetz
  • Federica Fregonese
  • Aristide Bado
  • Tieba Millogo
  • Seni Kouanda
  • Souleymane Diabaté
  • Slim Haddad

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Introduction: Burkina Faso started nationwide community case management of malaria (CCMm) in 2010. In 2011, health center user fees for children under five were abolished in some districts. Objective: To assess the effects of concurrent implementation of CCMm and user fees abolition on treatment-seeking practices for febrile children. Methods: This is a natural experiment conducted in the districts of Kaya (CCMm plus user fees abolition) and Zorgho (CCMm only). Registry data from 2005 to 2014 on visits for malaria were collected from all eight rural health centers in the study area. Annual household surveys were administered during malaria transmission season in 2011 and 2012 in 1,035 randomly selected rural households. Interrupted time series models were fitted for registry data and Fine and Gray’s competing risks models for survey data. Results: User fees abolition in Kaya significantly increased health center use by eligible children with malaria (incidence rate ratio for intercept change = 2.1, p

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  • Thomas Druetz & Federica Fregonese & Aristide Bado & Tieba Millogo & Seni Kouanda & Souleymane Diabaté & Slim Haddad, 2015. "Abolishing Fees at Health Centers in the Context of Community Case Management of Malaria: What Effects on Treatment-Seeking Practices for Febrile Children in Rural Burkina Faso?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(10), pages 1-14, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0141306
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141306
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