Table 2.
Antenatal care and malaria prophylaxis during last pregnancy
| Variables | Frequency (%) |
| Number of antenatal visits during pregnancy |
N = 20,072 |
| No antenatal visit | 6662 (33.2) |
| 1 – 3 | 2483 (12.4) |
| 4 | 1639 (8.2) |
| >4 | 8868 (22.8) |
| Don't remember | 420 (2.1) |
| Timing of first antenatal check | N = 13456 |
| First trimester | 3700 (27.5) |
| Second trimester | 8275 (61.5) |
| Last trimester | 1438 (10.7) |
| Don't know | 43 (0.3) |
| Place of attendance of ANC | N = 13285 |
| Home (respondents' or others') | 442 (3.3) |
| Government hospital | 5740 (43.2) |
| Government health center/post/ dispensary |
4767 (35.9) |
| Other public sector | 4 |
| Private hospital/clinic | 2796 (21) |
| Other private sector | 62 (0.5) |
| Other places | 13 (0.1) |
| Antimalarial drug taken during pregnancy |
N = 20,110 |
| Received no drug for malaria | 10035 (49.9) |
| Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine | 5180 (25.8) |
| Chloroquine | 713 (3.5) |
| Artesunate | 120 (0.6) |
| Coartem | 89 (0.4) |
| Daraprim | 184 (0.9) |
| *Other antimalaria | 399 (2.0) |
| **Other drugs for malaria | 1473 (6.8) |
*
Refers to all other antimalaria drugs that are not less commonly used and not listed
**
Refers to other drugs that people take for malaria such as analgesics, antipyretics, antibiotics, etc