Hepatitis A outbreak due to contaminated public water in Tiruchirappalli Corporation, Tamil Nadu, India, 2015

IPTp six months before the training were collected from the District Health Information System and compared with a month after the training. Data was analyzed using SPSS v.20 and paired t-test was used to test level of significance at 95% CI. Results: All the selected HFs successfully implemented IPTp administration as directly observed treatment. Within one month of intervention, documentation using the national registers improved. Mean IPT1 and IPT2 uptake increased significantly from 31.2% to 70.8% (p<0.05), and from 21.6% to 37.0% (p<0.05) respectively. Conclusion: FBT approach in building capacity of health workers appears to be an effective method in increasing uptake and documentation of malaria intervention among pregnant women in Akwa Ibom. Scale up of this strategy might rapidly increase uptake of IPTp and other malaria interventions. There is need for further studies to compare the effectiveness of other training approaches.