Williams, F.E., Jolayemi, E.T. & Adje, D.U.2024-05-022024-05-022013Williams, F.E., Jolayemi, E.T. & Adje, D.U. (2013). Antimalarial Medicines Use among Mothers Attending a Secondary Public Hospital in North-Central Nigeria for their Under-Five Children: Implication for Sustainable Health Transformation for African Development in Health, Science and Humanity Transformation for Sustainable African Development. Proceedings 1st U6 Consortium International Conference, D.O. Kolawole, F. Oluleye, & S. Mahmud (eds) 304 – 323https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/13228NoneAround the globe, malaria is a disease of public health importance. In 2010, there were 216 million cases of malaria of which 81% were in World Health Organization (WHO) African region, and an estimated 3.3 billion people were at risk of malaria. Also, an estimated 655 thousand malaria-related deaths of which 86% were children under 5 years of age occurred in 2010. Ninety-one percent of these deaths occurred in WHO African Region. Thus malaria poses a challenge to health transformation for sustainable African development. Prompt treatment of the disease using antimalarial medicines is one of the four basic technical elements of WHO’s Global Malarial Control Strategies. This study examined antimalarial medicine use among mothers attending a secondary public hospital in north-central Nigeria for their under-five children. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional and non-interventional study. Two hundred and twenty eligible mothers were interviewed using structured questionnaire. Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 17.00 was used for data entry and analysis. The findings revealed that 75.9% of the respondents visited a health centre/hospital for malarial treatment of their under-five children of which 41.9% did not know the name of the antimalarial medicine that was prescribed for their children and 18% did not complete the dosage regimen due to subsided symptoms (76.7%). Some of the respondents had shared the medicines of one child with another (25.9%). Only 45% of the respondents preferred Artemisinin Combination Therapy. There is need for adequate patient/care giver counselling in order to achieve health transformation for sustainable African development.enAntimalarial MedicinesUseMothersUnder-Five ChildrenPatient CounsellingArticle