Only women delivering at Katoro rural health centre had a significant trend towards increased odds of peripheral malaria by microscopy in both bivariate (OR = 1.72, p = 0.012) and multivariable analysis (AOR = 2.77, p = 0.014).
Having employment or being a business woman, secondary or higher level of education attainment, receipt of three or more doses of IPTp-SP, attendance of four or more ANC visits and bed net use were associated with decreased trend towards odds of peripheral malaria in bivariate analysis, although these variables did not reach statistical significance.