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Are malaria treatment expenditures catastrophic to different socio-economic and geographic groups and how do they cope with payment? A study in southeast Nigeria
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 11/10/09

Onwujekwe O et al. – There were socio–economic and geographic inequities in the financial burden resulting from malaria treatment. The treatment expenditure depleted more of the aggregate income of the two worse–off SES (Q1 and Q2) and of the rural dwellers. Government and donor agencies should institute the abolition of user fees for malaria, the transition from OOP to pre–payment mechanisms and the improvement of physical access to appropriate malaria treatment services, as well as subsidies and deferrals in order to engender financial risk protection from malaria treatment.