Input, Process and Output indicators and LQAS judgment for three Senatorial Districts (C-Central, NE-North East, NW-North West) in Jigawa, Nigeria, 2009.

*Number of adequately performing PMVs in the sample of n = 7 PMVs per SD and classification of SD as high or low performance based on the decision rule (d = 5).†95% confidence intervals for state estimates of coverage with finite population correction.‡as observed on the day of the survey.§PMV reported having had malaria-related training on at least three of the following components: treatment with ACTs, promotion of ITNs, referral for danger signs, disuse of chloroquine and SP for treatment.††PMV mentioned at least four of the following components of government recommendations: Treatment with ACTs, disuse of chloroquine and SP for treatment, disuse of oral artemisinin-based monotherapy for treatment, antimalarials to be given in single treatment packs, SP to be provided at least twice during pregnancy, treatment sought for febrile cases within 24 hrs of onset of symptoms.§§Interviewers brought the most common available brand of both types of recommended ACTs, showed them to the PMV and then asked them the dosage for a 2-year-old child for each drug. PMVs were not restricted from looking up dosage information if they wanted to do so.¶Recognizable danger signs to be named included convulsions, coma, severe vomiting, inability to drink or breastfeed, severe sickness/inability to sit or stand, difficulty in breathing/fast breathing, persistent fever, and lack of improvement or worsening of symptoms after two days.**PMV reported that client looking for treatment of fever/malaria purchased a first line antimalarial (recommended ACTs) rather than a non-recommended antimalarial.AL = Arthemether-lumefantrine, AA = Artesunate-amodiaquine, ITN = Insecticide Treated Nets, LLIN = Long Lasting Insecticide treated Nets.