Back ground: Increasing the proportion of institutional deliveries with a skilled attendant is a key intervention for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. However remarkable difference is observed between the proportion of antenatal care clients and facility delivery utilisation. In Ethiopia, little is known about the factors that affect women’s place of delivery after utilization of ante...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms during pregnancy can have multiple adverse effects on perinatal outcomes, including maternal morbidity and mortality. The potential impact of antenatal depressive symptoms on maternal health care use, however, has been little explored in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper investigates whether maternal health care utilisation varies as a function o...

Since the implementation of free maternity services in South Africa from 1994, more maternity services were provided (SA, 1994: 73). These services are however inaccessible to many pregnant women in the rural areas, leading to sub-optimal antenatal health service utilization. Another problem that emerged, is deterioration in antenatal health service rendering throughout the country, as well as ...

background & aim: we aimed to describe a standard survival analysis, so that we can analyze some factors related to the time of occurrence of different types of reflux (unilateral-left, unilateralright, and bilateral) in children with antenatal hydronephrosis (anh) and to provide an approach taking competing risks into account. methods & materials: we used data of 193 children that was collecte...

OBJECTIVE To determine to what extent antenatal clinic (ANC)-based estimates reflect HIV prevalence trends among men and women in a high prevalence urban population. METHODS Examination of data from serial population-based HIV surveys in 1995 (n = 2115), 1999 (n = 1962) and 2003 (n = 2692), and ANC-based surveillance in 1994 (n = 450), 1998 (n = 810) and 2002 (n = 786) in the same site in Lus...