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MALARIA<br />

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Half of <strong>Nepal</strong>’s health facilities offer diagnosis and treatment for malaria.<br />

About one-fifth of health facilities have at least one staff member recently trained in malaria<br />

diagnosis and/or treatment.<br />

Sixty percent of facilities that offer malaria diagnosis and/or treatment services had first-line<br />

medicines (mainly chloroquine and primaquine) for the treatment of malaria available on the<br />

day of the assessment visit.<br />

Despite the policy of promoting free distribution of bed nets to antenatal care clients, only 11<br />

percent of health facilities that provide malaria services had long-lasting insecticide-treated<br />

mosquito nets (LLINs) in stock for distribution.<br />

Key Findings • xxxi

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