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Table 10 Frequency of Stillbirths by number of SP doses, and Stillbirth rate (SBR) between April and November 2015

From: Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Status at birth

Number of SP doses

0

1

2

3+

Total

Livebirth

2644

1142

2233

3221

9240

Stillbirth

57

44

51

61

213

Total births

2701

1186

2284

3282

9453

SBR

21

37

22

19

23

  1. A stillbirth was defined as an infant born at 8 months or more gestational age, who showed no signs of life at birth
  2. SBR the number of stillbirths per thousand births
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Malaria Journal

ISSN: 1475-2875

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