Madagascar (2015): Household study measuring impact of BCC campaigns among caregivers of children under five in Tamatave I and II (UNITAID project). Round 2.

In order to improve febrile case management in the private sector, in coordination with the relevant National Malaria Control Programs, a consortium of partners including Population Services International (PSI) and Malaria Consortium (MC) are implementing a five-country project funded by UNITAID. The goal of the project is to increase the appropriate use of quality-assured RDTs in private sector outlets so as to provide appropriate treatment to the clients. The primary objective of the household survey is to monitor and evaluate exposure to and knowledge of the project demand creation activities. The project demand creation household survey will take the form of multi-round cross-sectional cluster surveys, conducted at least once in each project implementation year. Interviews will be conducted with primary caregivers of children under five years of age living in the project areas during malaria transmission period. The study need to interviews 340 caregivers of children under five in Tamatave I and II. This requires to screen 497 households. 33 EAs need to be visited and 15 households need to be selected in each EA. Data will be exported from EpiData to Stata for cleaning and analysis. The attribute data for each caregiver – each corresponding to one record in the tables – will be fully labelled along with value codes.