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| 2 of 3 The proportion of women in Latin America and the Caribbean who receive antenatal care in the first trimester |
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A key objective of maternal health care programmes has been to ensure that women present for antenatal care early in pregnancy in order to allow enough time for essential diagnosis and treatment regimens such as treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and management of anaemia. Overall, this objective is being met: in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa, two thirds of women present for antenatal care visit in the first trimester, while the figure for Asia is nearly half. The exception is sub-Saharan Africa, where women presenting for antenatal care are most likely to wait until the second trimester and a relatively substantial proportion present only in the third trimester. Although |
| women in sub-Saharan Africa make their first antenatal visit rather late in pregnancy, they nonetheless tend to report more than one visit. |
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