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Table 3 Availability of ACTs in Urban and Rural Settings of the Kintampo North Municipality and South District

From: Two years post affordable medicines facility for malaria program: availability and prices of anti-malarial drugs in central Ghana

Product

Urban Drug outlets

 

Rural Drug outlets

 

All Drug outlets

 

Product Available (%)

Product Available (%)

Product Available (%)

Quality Assured AL

75.0

 

87.1

*

81.0

*

Non-Assured AL

71.9

12.9

42.9

Quality Assured ASAQ

59.4

*

29.0

*

44.4

*

Non-Assured ASAQ

21.9

0.0

11.1

Any QAACT

84.4

 

93.6

*

88.9

*

Any NAACTa

75.0

16.1

46.0

  1. *Signifies chi-squared value between Quality Assured group and Non-Assured group is below p < .05 level of significance
  2. aThis statistic excludes dihydroartemisinin – piperaquine (DHAP), an ACT that was sold in Ghana but not as a QAACT. For that reason, DHAP is not compared in this table