Journal of Good Governance and Sustainable Development in Africa (JGGSDA), Vol. 2, No 4, May, 2015. Website: http://www.rcmss.com. ISSN: 2354-158X (Online) ISSN: 2346-724X (Print) Idris Haruna; Yahaya, Ocholi; Otola Faith O & Audu Joel Samson., 2015, 2(4):59-66 59 Research Centre for Management and Social Studies ANTENATAL MALARIA PARASITAEMIA AND PCV PROFILE OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN IDAH, KOGI STATE, NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA Idris Haruna, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria Email: idrisdanali@yahoo.com Yahaya, Ocholi, Department of Science Laboratory Technology (Micro-Biology), Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria Otola Faith O Department of Science Laboratory Technology (Micro-Biology), Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria Audu Joel Samson Registry Department, Federal Polytechnic Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria Email:joelsamsonaudu@gmail.com Abstract This paper assesses the Antenatal Malaria Parasitaemia and PCV Profile of Pregnant Women in Idah, Kogi State of Nigeria. A total of 1103 women were sampled out of which 1003 women were pregnant, 100 were not pregnant (thus, this serves as the control group of the study). The major thrust of paper is: to ascertain if malaria parasitaemia infection, severity is independent of the pregnancy parity, and to consider if prevalence rate is adverse at different parity. To achieve these objectives, prevalence rate, add ratio, x 2 test of independence were employed to analyze the set of suitably collected data from Idah General Hospital, the results indicate that malaria is strongly associated with pregnancy, severity of malaria parasitaemia infection depends on pregnancy parity, the highest malaria prevalence rate of 53% was recorded among primiparae, with over 65% of malaria positive primigravid mother’s having PCV below the World Health Standard, these and some other findings were discovered, recommendation was given based on the findings. Keywords: Malaria, Pregnancy, Primiparea, Multiparae. Introduction Malaria is a common but deadly infection in hot, tropical areas of the world. Malaria (although rarely) can also occur in temperate climates. Malaria is caused by a parasite known as plasmodium infected into the body (blood) by the bite of the female anopheles mosquitoes. WHO (1995) noted that malaria is a disease of poverty afflicting primarily the poor who tend to live in malaria-prone rural areas that offer very little or no barriers against mosquitoes.