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. 2013 Jul 11;7(7):e2304. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002304

Table 2. Pregnant women screened compared with pregnant women registered in health facilities and seroprevalence (2009).

Department Chuquisaca Tarija Cochabamba Santa Cruz La Paz Potosí TOTAL
N° of women screened 11,568 9,325 39,071 38,830 2,520 5,410 106,724
Pregnant women registered 7,401 6,762 36,612 27,751 1,016 3,666 83,208
Seroprevalence (Confidence interval) 37% (36–38) 38% (37–39) 18% (17–18) 20% (19–20) 5% (4–6) 9.5%(9–10) 22% (21–22)

In the 6 endemic departments of Bolivia, the number of women tested is greater than the number of women registered in each hospital. This fact is due to numerous failures in clinical records that lead to repeat testing in prenatal controls.