Abstract
Anemia is among the public health problem especially in developing countries. Yemen is not an exceptional.Methodology: this study is cross sectional study, which is conducted during the first 6 month of the year 2004 and involved 300 pregnant women attending 4 main MCH centers in A1-salam, October and Fowa regions. The data were collected used a questionnaire. The blood samples were extracted by finger pJick.Results: Showed that anemia is a common feature among blood pregnant women (81 %) in comparison to (19%) that are not anemic.Conclusion and recommendations: Prevalence of anemia among studied pregnant women were frequent in all age groups and anemia is less in the first trimester (5.3%).Increasing level of awareness in women a1_1d their families about the risk of anemia in pregnancy and to create the need for iron supplement
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