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Although a high proportion of pregnant women had an antenatal care (ANC) visit at least once during pregnancy, the coveragelevel of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp-SP) and insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) remainslow in Sub-Saharan Africa. A hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. The outcome of the surveyrevealed that the majority of participants, 79%, were above 20 years old, with a mean (+/-SD) age of 25.6 (+/-SD) years. Thesurvey also revealed that 62.67% of the participants knew about IPTp; the biggest number of participants (86.67%) reportedutilizing IPTp during their current pregnancy, while 13.33% did not take IPTp. Occupation, gestational age, several ANC visits,and information about IPTp were significantly associated with IPTp uptake. The current study explored malaria IPTp uptakeamong pregnant women attending ANC at Bumanya HCIV. It established that an increased number of ANC visits, providingIPTp information to pregnant women, and the gestational age of pregnancy resulted in increased uptake of IPTp and thusreduced incidences of malaria cases.Keywords: Pregnancy, Women, ANC, IPTp, Malaria, Gestational age.