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Table 2 Results of women who received essential infectious disease control services before and after project implementation

From: Control of infectious disease during pregnancy among pastoralists in South Sudan: A case for investment into mobile clinics

Women currently pregnant

% at baseline

% at endline

p value

Proportion of women who received any form of malaria screening during this pregnancy

(11)14.1%

(73)89.6%

0.03

Proportion of women received tablets for malaria prevention (for those more than 16 weeks of pregnancy - 49 women)

(5)10.2%

(47)95.9%

0.01

Proportion of pregnant women who owned a mosquito net

(3)3.6%

(78)95.1%

0.01

Receiving HIV screening during recent pregnancy

(13)15.9%

(69)84.1%

0.04

Among screened and tested HIV-positive, proportion that received ART to prevent transmission (Eye Radio Network 2018)

(5)17.6%

(15)88.2%

< 0.01