Table 2.

Malaria screening, diagnosis, and treatment during the current or previous pregnancy pre- and post-intermittent screening and treatment during pregnancy implementation

	Household survey
	Pre-intervention (N = 553)			Post-intervention (N = 534)
	N	%	95% CI	N	%	95% CI	P-value
Visited ANC at least once	511	92.4	88.0, 95.3	489	91.6	97.3, 94.5	0.7
Number of visits to ANC
1	32	6.5	4.3, 9.8	45	9.7	6.2, 14.9	0.04
2	84	17.0	13.4, 21.4	75	16.2	12.6, 20.6
3	94	19.1	15.5, 23.2	60	13.0	9.7, 17.3
4+	279	56.6	50.4, 62.6	282	61.0	54.0, 67.6
At least 1 ANC visit due to illness	98	19.7	15.8, 24.3	142	29.1	25.3, 33.3	0.003
Fever at least once	114	20.6	16.0, 26.2	136	25.5	22.5, 28.8	0.1
At least 1 malaria RDT at ANC	98	19.2	14.9, 24.3	208	42.5	36.6, 48.7	< 0.0001
Number of RDT tests at ANC*
0	398	80.7	75.5, 85.1	261	55.9	49.5, 62.1	< 0.0001
1	64	13.0	9.4, 17.7	125	26.8	22.2, 31.9
2	22	4.5	2.9, 6.8	49	10.5	8.0, 13.7
≥ 3	9	1.8	1.1, 3.1	32	6.7	4.5, 10.3
Reason for the last malaria test*
Illness	64	67.4	54.9, 77.8	11	19.3	12.6, 28.4	< 0.0001
Routine	26	27.4	17.9, 39.4	43	75.4	64.4, 83.9
Woman requested a test	5	5.3	2.2, 11.9	3	5.3	1.4, 18.0
Malaria test positive	37	38.5	26.9, 51.7	57	29.4	22.7, 37.1	0.1
Treated for malaria at least once	61	11.0	8.0, 15.1	65	12.2	9.7, 15.1	0.7
How many times taken treatment for malaria
1	39	7.1	4.8, 10.2	53	9.9	8.1, 12.1	0.04
2	13	2.4	1.4, 4.1	12	2.2	1.1, 4.6
3+	8	1.4	0.7, 2.9	0	0	–
Malaria test at last ANC	23	4.5	3.1, 6.6	73	15.3	12.5, 18.5	< 0.0001

ANC = antenatal care; RDT = rapid diagnostic test. Bold indicates P ≤ 0.05.

* Those reporting “do not know” were excluded.