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    Prevalence of STI’s among pregnant women who visit antenatal care clinic in peri-urban health centers in Blantyre
    (Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, 2022-02-09) Kawonga, Nathan; Machilika, Innocent; Glory, Kaunda
    Pregnant women are at an increased risk of being infected with STIs which has a potential to cause undesirable effects to the mothers themselves as well as the unborn child. Therefore estimating the prevalence of the STIs would raise an alarm and possibly timely interventions and management of the conditions before it causes complications. The broad objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of STIs among pregnant women who attend antenatal care clinic in the peri-urban health centers of Blantyre city. The second objective is to ascertain factors that contribute to higher prevalence of STIs. This is both quantitative and qualitative research which is anticipated to be carried out in the selected periurban health centers of Blantyre city. In the study, quantitative method will be used to collect secondary data of number of women who were diagnosed with STIs in the past 6 months among all pregnant women who attended the clinic. Qualitative primary data will be obtained from the pregnant women themselves who will happen to be convenient at the time of the study. Questionnaires will be used in collection of primary data. The study is expected to take place within the period of 6 weeks, next academic year, 2022. After analysis of the data, we expect the results of this study to have similar trend as other studies which were conducted in other countries like Nepal and Gambia which showed that the prevalence of STIs is high during gestational period. The results of the research will be disseminated to various protocols, that is, to the COMREC, KUHES library and also to our supervisor. These results will also be presented during the Student’s dissemination session at the end of the Research Rotation in fourth year of the MBBS program.