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Table 4 Determining the number of women eligible for SP1 between April and November 2015, and differences between project mapping and official projections

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

LGA

Official projected population in 2015

Percentage pregnant women per annum (assuming 0.05 of Pop)

Estimated number of pregnant women over 8 month period

Enumerated pregnant women from the MiPP database

% Difference between MiPP database and projected population of pregnant women

Women that became eligible for SP1 Between April and November 2015

% Eligible for SP1 between April and November in MiPP database (%)

Dange Shuni

255,908

12,795

9597

9550

0%

9136

96 

Goronyo

257,984

12,899

9674

11,231

14%

10,850

97 

Silame

147,715

7386

5539

6251

11%

5586

89 

Yabo

167,971

8399

6299

NA

NA

5921b

94a

Total

829,577

41,479

31,109

27,032

8%

31,493

94

  1. aMean percentage of women becoming eligible for SP1 in the intervention LGA’s
  2. bEstimated using the mean percentage of pregnant women that became eligible for SP1 in the intervention LGAs