In this study 781 pregnant women were eligible, 245
(31.4%) did not participate due to variable reasons like being
sick, hungry, lack of permission from their partners and fear
of speculum examination. 536 pregnant women participated
in the study, their age ranged from 14 to 45 years with mean
(±SD) of 25.8 (± 5.7) years. Most of them were either
married or cohabiting (89.4%), had primary education
(60.6%) and had made 3 or above ANC visit (69.5%). Table
1 shows socio-demographic characteristics and ANC visit of
the participants.Majority of them reported they were tested for HIV and
hemoglobin, 99.0% and 71.4% respectively. Only 10.6%
were tested for syphilis. Table 2 shows proportion of
pregnant women who were tested for HIV, syphilis and
haemoglobin during routine ANC attendance.
Forty percent (40.5%) of the participants found to have
anaemia and those with HIV infection were 6%. The
prevalence of mild, moderate and severe anaemia was 22.5%,
15.7% and 2.3% respectively. Table 3 shows prevalence of
HIV, syphilis anaemia among participants