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.