PREVALENCE OF MALARIA PARASITES AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINICS AT ROCK FOUNDATION HOSPITAL AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
Abstract
Malaria infection and complication during and after pregnancy remained a major
public health concern in the tropics and subtropics. The study determined the
prevalence of malaria parasite infection among pregnant women attending antenatal
at rock foundation hospital Awka in relation to age, gravidity, and trimester. This
was a cross-sectional based study involving pregnant women in Rock Foundation
Hospital. Blood samples were collected by venipuncture and examined using thick
and thin blood film under x100 microscope. Data obtained from the study was
analyzed using Chi-square in SPSS version 25 at 95% confidence interval. The
results showed that out of 116 pregnant women that were sampled in the study, 72
(62%) of the subjects were obviously positive for malaria parasites. The result
showed that pregnant women with the age group 20-25 years had the highest
prevalence of 32(27.58%) while the least prevalence of 5(18.96%) was showed by
the pregnant women of age group 41-45 years. However, this was statistically
signicant at (P
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