Last Updated: 26/06/2020
Assessing the Impact of Group ANC (GANC) on IPTp uptake in Tanzania and Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Pregnant Women as a Sentinel Surveillance Population
Objectives
The primary objectives of the study are:
(1) To assess whether group antenatal care (GANC) leads to improved uptake of IPTp; specifically, to assess whether the proportion of pregnant women receiving IPTp3+ is higher in the catchment areas of facilities implementing the GANC intervention as compared to the catchment areas of control facilities without GANC; and
(2) To pilot data collection from pregnant women at 1st ANC visit and validate whether the results obtained from this population are representative of the population as a whole.
This project will help to assess the benefits of providing GANC, and will also assess the costs associated with implementation of this strategy. This will provide countries important information on whether this strategy should be rolled out on a wide scale. In addition, this study will assess the utility, feasibility, and acceptability of collecting data on community coverage of malaria control interventions from pregnant women attending their first ANC visit. If these data are found to correlate well with population level coverage, and are easy to collect, this would provide an additional option for conducting ongoing surveillance of intervention coverage at a granular level.
Nov 2019 — Sep 2021
$500,000
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