| States | Place of first access to care | |||||
| Health Facility n (%) | Community Pharmacist n (%) | Patent Medicine Vendor n (%) | Traditional drug/home n (%) | Unspecified/none n (%) | Total n (%) | |
| Akwa Ibom | 65 (64.4) | 7 (6.9) | 26 (25.7) | 2 (2.0) | 1 (1.0) | 101 (1.1) |
| Anambra | 501 (62.5) | 34 (4.2) | 230 (28.7) | 12 (1.5) | 25 (3.1) | 802 (8.4) |
| Bauchi | 388 (74.6) | 25 (4.8) | 100 (19.2) | 7 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 520 (5.5) |
| Benue | 43 (63.2) | 6 (8.8) | 17 (25.0) | 1 (1.5) | 1 (1.5) | 68 (0.7) |
| Cross River | 233 (67.3) | 18 (5.2) | 94 (27.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 346 (3.6) |
| Delta | 65 (57.2) | 21 (18.4) | 24 (21.1) | 4 (3.5) | 0 (0.0) | 114 (1.2) |
| Imo | 149 (66.8) | 48 (21.5) | 25 (11.2) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 223 (2.3) |
| Kaduna | 1012 (75.3) | 104 (7.7) | 197 (14.7) | 23 (1.7) | 8 (0.6) | 1344 (14.2) |
| Kano | 1339 (77.1) | 37 (2.1) | 334 (19.2) | 24 (1.4) | 2 (0.1) | 1736 (18.3) |
| Katsina | 2344 (86.5) | 87 (3.2) | 211 (7.8) | 37 (1.4) | 32 (1.2) | 2711 (28.5) |
| Nasarawa | 451 (78.7) | 36 (6.3) | 72 (12.6) | 12 (2.1) | 2 (0.3) | 573 (6.0) |
| Plateau | 235 (85.5) | 16 (5.8) | 19 (6.9) | 5 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 275 (2.9) |
| Rivers | 345 (64.7) | 54 (10.1) | 125 (23.5) | 5 (0.9) | 4 (0.8) | 533 (5.6) |
| Taraba | 127 (84.7) | 4 (2.7) | 16 (10.7) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (2,0) | 150 (1.6) |