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Table 5 Malaria national intervention policy and factor loadings

From: A cross-country comparison of malaria policy as a premise for contextualized appropriation of foreign aid in global health

Malaria national intervention policy and strategy adoption Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5 Factor 6
ITNs/LLINs are distributed free of charge − 0.31 − 0.22 − 0.59 0.56 0.32 0.06
ITNs/LLINs are distributed to all age groups 0.03 0.58 − 0.11 0.66 0.01 − 0.40
ITNs/LLINs distributed through mass campaigns to all age groups − 0.47 0.41 − 0.5 0.18 0.29 − 0.31
IRS is recommended by malaria control programme − 0.16 0.68 0.11 − 0.47 0.19 − 0.34
DDT is used for IRS − 0.03 0.57 0.47 − 0.04 0.61 0.25
IPTp is used to prevent malaria during pregnancy − 0.66 0.05 0.6 0.38 − 0.15 0.06
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC or IPTc) − 0.67 − 0.08 0.65 0.26 − 0.02 − 0.02
Patients of all ages should get diagnostic test 0.55 0.01 0.66 0.5 − 0.05 0.03
Malaria diagnosis is free of charge in the public sector 0.67 0.21 0.05 0.33 0.43 0.34
RDTs are used at community level − 0.41 0.35 − 0.43 − 0.11 − 0.07 0.61
G6PD test is recommended before treatment with primaquine 0.40 0.25 − 0.31 0.49 − 0.54 0.11
ACT for treatment of Plasmodium falciparum − 0.40 0.82 0.08 − 0.08 − 0.37 0.02
Pre-referral treatment with quinine or artemether IM or artesunate supp − 0.70 0.32 − 0.19 0.15 − 0.12 0.21
Single dose of primaquine is used as gametocidal medicine for Plasmodium falciparum 0.68 0.53 − 0.01 − 0.05 0.02 0.1
Primaquine is used for radical treatment of Plasmodium vivax 0.91 0.01 − 0.17 0.11 0.05 − 0.13
Directly observed treatment with primaquine is undertaken 0.66 0.43 0.10 − 0.22 − 0.29 0.04
  1. Factor loadings: factors 1–6