A Strategy for home based management of fever in Uganda

ABSTRACT

A significant proportion of morbidity and mortality in Uganda is due to malaria and malaria-related illnesses. Malaria accounts for 46of illnesses in children; 20-40of outpatient visits 25of admissions to hospitals and 14of inpatient deaths (MOFPED 1995). Unfortunately; the magnitude of the malaria problem in the country is worsening for instance malaria accounted for 25-40of the OPD cases in 1922/3; 27-51in 1998 and 29-50in 1999 (MOH 2001). Some of the reasons for this include mismanagement of malaria cases; misuse of anti-malarial drugs and resistance of malaria parasites to drugs resulting in increasing level of treatment failures