State of inequality in malaria intervention coverage in sub-Saharan African countries

Table 1 Summary of distribution of malaria interventions across asset-wealth index in sub-Saharan African countries in 2015^a

Intervention	Pro-Poor	Inequitable	No difference across the asset-wealth index distribution
Household with at least one insecticide-treated net (ITN) for every two persons	CIV, COG, GAB, GHA, LBR, NAM, ZWE	AGO, BDI, BEN, BFA, CMR, COM, KEN, MLI, MOZ, MWI, NER, RWA, TZA, ZMB	COD, GIN, MDG, NGA, SEN, SLE, TCD, TGO, UGA
Population who slept under an ITN last night	CIV, COG, GAB, GHA, GIN, LBR, MDG, NAM, SLE, TGO, UGA, ZWE	AGO, BDI, CMR, COM, KEN, MOZ, MWI, NER, RWA, TCD, TZA	BEN, BFA, COD, MLI, NGA, SEN, ZMB
Household with insecticide residual spraying in the past 12 months	BDI, BEN, COM, GHA, LBR, NAM, SEN, UGA, ZWE	BFA, CIV, CMR, GAB, GIN, MOZ, NER, SLE, TCD, ZMB	MDG, MLI, MWI, NGA, TZA
Mother received 3+ doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during antenatal care visit		AGO, BEN, CIV, CMR, GHA, GIN, MLI, MOZ, NER, NGA, TCD, TGO, TZA, ZMB	BDI, COD, COG, COM, GAB, KEN, LBR, MDG, MWI, NAM, SEN, SLE, UGA
Child (<5 years) with fever sought care at a formal provider		AGO, BEN, BFA, CIV, CMR, COG, GIN, KEN, LBR, MLI, MOZ, NER, NGA, RWA, TCD, TGO, TZA, UGA, ZWE	BDI, COD, COM, GAB, GHA, MDG, MWI, NAM, SEN, SLE, ZMB
Child (<5 years) with fever treated with an antimalarial	MOZ, MWI, TZA, ZMB	AGO, BEN, BFA, CIV, CMR, COD, GAB, GIN, NER, NGA, TCD	BDI, COG, COM, GHA, KEN, LBR, MDG, MLI, NAM, RWA, SEN, SLE, TGO, UGA, ZWE

For each country (indicated by ISO3 codes), distribution of malaria intervention coverage indicators were assessed over population ranked by asset-wealth; the degree of inequality in distribution of interventions was summarized in concentration index (CIX). Interventions were classified as “Pro-poor” if the estimated CIX was negative, “Inequitable” if was CIX is positive, and as “No difference across the asset-wealth index distribution” if CIX was equal to zero or lacked statistical significance
^aData drawn from a subset of countries with Demographic and Health Survey/Malaria Indicator Survey conducted after 2010 (ISO3 codes and years of data collection are detailed in Additional file 1: Table SA1)

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