National and sub-national variation in patterns of febrile case management in sub-Saharan Africa

Given national healthcare coverage gaps, understanding treatment-seeking behaviour for fever is crucial for the management of childhood illness and to reduce deaths. Here, we conduct a modelling study triangulating household survey data for fever in children under the age of five years with georeferenced public health facility databases ( n = 86,442 facilities) in 29 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, to estimate the probability of seeking...