Antenatal care in The Gambia: Missed opportunity for information, education and communication

Table 2 Women provided with IEC on selected topics at any or all antenatal visits.

Topic	N = 457
	n	%
Diet and nutrition	162	35.4
How to get to health facility if there were an emergency	142	31.1
Benefit of birth in a health facility	140	30.6
Care of your baby	139	30.4
STIs, HIV/AIDS	137	30.0^‡
Child spacing/family planning	108	23.6
Place of birth	104	22.8
What to do if there is a problem such as bleeding or convulsions/fits	88	19.3

^‡86/101 (85.1%) at the two health facilities where prevention of parent-to-child transmission of HIV (PPTCT) was being piloted compared to 51/356 (14.3%) at other health facilities where there was no PPTCT programme.

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