A cluster randomized trial of delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy at the community level in Malawi

Table 1 Characteristics of the study districts

District	Public health centres providing ANC	ANC staff	Community health workers	Total population	Pregnant population	IPTp2+ (%)^a	IPTp3+ (%)^a	ANC1+ (%)^a	ANC4+ (%)^a
Nkata Bay	22	29	87	206,670	9905	65.4	31.3	98.1	57.6
Ntcheu	40	55	81	270,903	13,544	60.5	26.6	94.2	45.9

ANC antenatal care, IPTp intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy
^a National Statistical Office (NSO) and ICF Macro: Malawi demographic and health survey 2015–2016. Zomba, Malawi and Calverton, MD, USA 2017

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