Table 4 Pregnant women’s barriers and facilitators for the use of ANC
Factor & components | Barrier | Facilitator |
|---|---|---|
Internal factors | ||
Knowledge and Beliefs: Perceptions on the ANC importance | Not aware of each component value neither its significance, they are lay across beliefs. | It is recognized. Some women seem to be giving up the idea of receiving care at the community level |
They seek to "open the record" in order to make easier admission for delivery at health center | ||
Attitudes & Behaviors: Approach to the health system for ANC and delivery | Arrival to ANC care during 2nd and 3rd trimester, due to impossibility to prove the pregnancy | Willingness to deliver at institutional level. |
Perception that they will not receive any care until pregnancy is evident. | ||
External factors | ||
Accessibility: Transportation | Distance and lack of transportation prevents accessing to health centers and laboratory | |
Accessibility: Economic | Pregnancy test are not affordable, resulting into late consultation | |
Lack of integral free treatment to partners for syphilis treatment, prevent women to succeed in treatment | ||