BACKGROUND Antenatal care is important for pregnant women. By good antenatal care many complications of pregnancy can be prevented and lives can be saved. This study was carried out to find out the reasons of not utilising antenatal care, knowledge about dangerous signs and symptoms of pregnancy, and diet in women receiving and not receiving antenatal care. METHODS This descriptive study was ...

OBJECTIVE Antenatal hydronephrosis is diagnosed in 1% to 5% of all pregnancies; however, the antenatal and postnatal management of hydronephrosis varies widely. No previous studies define the risk of postnatal pathology in infants with antenatal hydronephrosis. Our objective was to review the current literature to determine whether the degree of antenatal hydronephrosis and related antenatal ul...

The primary source of data is the notifiable diseases forms raised when an individual is treated as a case of syphilis as required by law. Data for a 5-year period, 1974 to 1978 are used for this study. A special return on antenatal screening for syphilis for the same period was obtained from military medical establishments though not all units submitted them and even these were not complete fo...

BACKGROUND The potential of antenatal care for reducing maternal morbidity and improving newborn survival and health is widely acknowledged. Yet there are worrying gaps in knowledge of the quality of antenatal care provided in Tanzania. In particular, determinants of health workers' performance have not yet been fully understood. This paper uses ethnographic methods to document health workers' ...

BACKGROUND Early and frequent antenatal care attendance during pregnancy is important to identify and mitigate risk factors in pregnancy and to encourage women to have a skilled attendant at childbirth. However, many pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa start antenatal care attendance late, particularly adolescent pregnant women. Therefore they do not fully benefit from its preventive and curat...

BACKGROUND Congenital syphilis is a consequence of undiagnosed, untreated, or inadequately treated maternal syphilis and results in serious adverse outcomes. It is easily diagnosed and in Ghana it is treated at points of care free; yet most pregnant women attending antenatal clinic (ANC) in Ghana are not screened. This study identified some factors influencing syphilis screening uptake at medic...

objective: to study maternal and neonatal outcomes, the nulliparous women submitted to a training program in third trimester. materials and methods: this randomized controlled trial was carried out on 64 nulliparous pregnant women divided into two groups according to their participation including; training group; n=34 or not; n=34. the program consisted of 8 meetings (between the 28 th and the ...