Table 3 Frequency and costs of previous treatment(s) sought
Country | Burkina Faso | Gambia | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Out patient | In patienta | Out patient | In patient | ||||||
% | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | ||
Any treatment before | 6.67 | 10/150b | 27.14 | 19/70 | 1.30 | 2/155 | 25.92 | 28/108 | |
Places previous treatment sought before survey | |||||||||
First place treatment sought | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
Home | 30.00 | 3 | 43.47 | 10 | 50.00 | 1 | 32.14 | 9 | |
Traditional healer | 0.00 | 0 | 4.34 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 10.71 | 3 | |
Market | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Pharmacy | 20.00 | 2 | 17.39 | 4 | 50.00 | 1 | 35.71 | 10 | |
Hospital | 50.00 | 5 | 17.39 | 4 | 0.00 | 0 | 21.42 | 6 | |
Second place treatment sought | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
Home | 50.00 | 2 | 25.00 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Traditional healer | 25.00 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Market | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Pharmacy | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 100.0 | 1 | |
Hospital | 25.00 | 1 | 75.00 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
Costs of previous treatment before survey (US$) | |||||||||
 Mean cost of first treatment | 1.51 | 2.21 | 0.86 | 2.74 | |||||
 Mean cost of second treatment | 4.87 | 20.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
 Mean total cost previous treatment | 2.72 | 4.27 | 0.86 | 2.74 | |||||