Inferring antenatal care visit timing in low- and middle-income countries: Methods to inform potential maternal vaccine coverage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The timing of antenatal care (ANC) visits directly affect health intervention coverage and impact, especially for those interventions requiring strict gestational age windows for administration, such as maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. Existing nationally representative population-based surveys do not record the timing of ANC visits beyond the first, limiting the availability of reliable data around timing of subsequent ANC visits in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Here, we describe a model that estimates the timing of ANC visits by gestational age using publicly available multi-country survey data.

Methods and findings

We used the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data from 69 LMICs. We used several factors to estimate the tim

SUBMITTER: Baral R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446781 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature