Estimated national annual outpatient caseloads and malaria commodity needs at publically-funded health facilities in Malawi, 2011.

<p>Note: Estimates by age may not sum to total due to rounding. Estimates may overestimate the number of outpatients with malaria annually in Malawi, as the survey was conducted during the high transmission season, and annualization of malaria caseload was not adjusted for seasonality, given the lack of necessary data required to do this.</p><p>*Assuming one RDT needed for each febrile patient, not accounting for buffer stocks, etc.</p><p>**Actual number needed for RDTs and AL courses, assuming ACTs are used only for patients with malaria after they receive a diagnostic test and not accounting for buffer stocks, lost materials, expiring stocks, etc. Estimate is based on diagnosis of patients by expert microscopy, and use of RDTs at facilities may require additional ACTs, given the higher test positivity rate of RDTs compared to microscopy. In addition to ACTs, 68,705 courses of quinine are also needed for the 0.8% of malaria patients <5 kg and the0.4% who are pregnant women in their first trimester.