The source adds the following information:
"Care seeking for children with fever – Percentage of children under five years of age with fever for whom advice or treatment was sought from a health facility or provider. Excludes drug vendor, stores, shops and traditional healer. In some countries, particularly non-malaria endemic countries, pharmacies have also been excluded from the calculation.
Children sleeping under ITNs – Percentage of children under age 5 who slept under an insecticide-treated mosquito net the night prior to the survey.
Households with at least one ITN – Percentage of households with at least one insecticide-treated mosquito net."
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Intervention coverage against malaria in Nigeria 2015-2020
For ** percent of children with fever in Nigeria as of 2020, advice or treatment was sought from a health facility or provider. Moreover, approximately half of the children in the country slept under insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) for protection against malaria. According to a study conducted in 2018, ** percent of the surveyed children in Nigeria had malaria. Nevertheless, this figure dropped by roughly ** percentage points compared to 2010.
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