Fig. 1

Location of PPMVs shops in 2 states. There were 2,345 shops (28.2%) in which the medicine vendor (person in charge) had some form of medical training; majority were community extension worker (14.4%), nurses (both retired and some working in health facilities) (9.6%) and other junior cadres (4.1%). Figure 2 shows the proportion of PPMVs with medical training in each of the LGAs across both states. The average percentage was much higher in the rural areas (32.2%) and in Kaduna State (37.9%) than urban areas (19.7%) and Lagos State (11.3%). About half (50.9%) of the shops were solely manned by the medicine vendor without assistance, about one-third (31.9%) had staff ranging from 1 to 3 persons and only a quarter of the shops had more than four (4) staff