Interviewer instructions
Circle the codes corresponding to all medicines reported taken to prevent malaria during the pregnancy.
PROVIDE INTERVIEWERS WITH PICTURES OR PACKAGES OF TYPICAL ANTI-MALARIAL MEDICINES USED IN THE COUNTRY, TO BE SHOWN TO RESPONDENTS DURING THE INTERVIEWS.
If the respondent cannot remember the name of the medicine taken, ask her to show you the package it came in. If she doesn't have the package, show her typical anti-malarial and ask if she took any of them. If she mentions that during an antenatal visit she was given three tablets to take all at the same time in order to prevent malaria, circle 'A' on the assumption that she took SP.
If she took another medicine, write the name in the space provided in 'Other', and circle 'X'. If she doesn't know the name of the medicine she took to prevent malaria, circle 'Z'.
Question post text
Circle all medicines taken. If type of medicine is not determined, show typical anti-malarial to respondent.