Research Article

Addressing Inequities in Access to Health Products through the Use of Social Marketing, Community Mobilization, and Local Entrepreneurs in Rural Western Kenya

Table 2

Proportion of NICHE households ever receiving a visit from a SWAP vendor and frequency of purchases from vendors, NICHE study, Nyando District, Kenya, 2007–2009.

BLFU1FU2
I ( )C ( )PTotal
( )
I ( )C ( )PTotal
( )
I ( )C ( )PTotal
( )

Ever visited by a SWAP vendor17/573 (3%)10/527 (2%)0.4327/1100* (2%)195/496 (39%)42/466 (9%)<0.0001237/962* (25%)153/326 (47%)130/321 (41%)0.16283/647* (44%)

Ever purchased anything from SWAP vendor12 (75%)6 (60%)0.3518/26*
69%)
185 (95%)37 (88%)0.01232/247 (94%)141 (92%)117 (90%)0.53258/283 (91%)

Ever purchased WaterGuard from SWAP vendor10 (2%)5 (1%)0.2815 (1%)66 (14%)8 (2%)<0.000174 (8%)87 (27%)66 (21%)0.12153 (24%)

Ever purchased ITN from SWAP vendor 2 (<1%)0 (0%)0.502 (<1%)14 (3%)3 (1%)0.0417 (2%)16 (5%)15 (5%)0.9131 (5%)

Ever purchased Sprinkles from SWAP vendor 0 (0%)0 (0%)N/A0 (0%)177 (36%)30 (6%)<0.0001207 (22%)126 (39%)105 (33%)0.20231 (36%)

I: NICHE intervention villages; C: NICHE comparison villages. values refer to differences between the intervention and comparison villages during the specified survey. Note that the intervention was provided differentially during Year 1 but not Year 2 of the study.
Among households visited by a SWAP vendor.
*Missing data.