Negotiating improved case management of childhood illness with formal and informal private practitioners in Uganda.

Objective: In Uganda, formal and informal private practitioners (PPs) provide most case management for childhood illness. This paper describes the impact of negotiation sessions, an intervention to improve the quality of PPs' case management of childhood diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria in a rural district in Uganda.

Method: Negotiation sessions targeted PPs working at private clinics and drug shops.