Treatment-seeking behavior and practices among caregivers of children aged ≤5 y with presumed malaria in rural Uganda

Abstract

Almost all of the patients who took herbal medicine also took modern antimalarials, so further research is needed to explore potential interactions between them. Although formal health facilities provided the correct diagnosis and dose of AL to a majority of children with malaria, many children still received inappropriate antibiotics. Quality of care was worse in drug shops than in formal health facilities.