Table 2 Health services coverage in Malawi compared to African Region and global averages
From: National health research system in Malawi: dead, moribund, tepid or flourishing?
Health services | Malawi | African Region | Global | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Unmet need for family planning (%) (2012) | 26 | 25 | 12 | |
Contraceptive prevalence (%) 2012) | 46 | 27 | 63 | |
Antenatal care coverage: at least 4 visits (%) (2012) | 46 | 43 | 55 | |
Births attended by skilled health personnel (%) | 71 | 49 | 70 | |
Births by caesarean section (%) | 5 | 4 | 16 | |
Postnatal care visit within two days of childbirth (%) (2011) | 43 | 45 | 49 | |
Neonates protected at birth against neonatal tetanus (%) (2011) | 87 | 77 | 82 | |
Immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%) (2011) | Measles | 96 | 75 | 84 |
DTP3 | 97 | 71 | 83 | |
HepB3 | 97 | 71 | 75 | |
Hib3 | 97 | 61 | 43 | |
Children aged 6–59 months who received vitamin A supplementation (%) (2011) | 86 | 65 | 50 | |
Children aged < 5 years (%) | With ARI symptoms taken to a health facility (2011) | 70 | 48 | 78 |
With ARI symptoms receiving antibiotics (2011) | – | 24 | - | |
With diarrhoea receiving ORT (ORS and/or RHF) (2011) | 69 | 42 | 64 | |
Sleeping under insecticide treated nets (2011) | 39 | 32 | – | |
With fever who received treatment with any antimalarial (2012) | 43 | – | – | |
Pregnant women with HIV receiving antiretrovirals to prevent MTCT (%) (2011) | 53 | 59 | 57 | |
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection (%) (2011) | 67 | 57 | 54 | |
Case-detection rate for all forms of tuberculosis (%) | 66 | 61 | 67 | |
Treatment-success rate for smear-positive tuberculosis (%) | 87 | 82 | 87 | |