Use of drugs known to cause fetal harm among women delivering infants in Haiti.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of use of fetal-harm drugs among women who received postpartum care in hospitals in Haiti and to identify groups of women at higher risk for potentially harmful medication exposures.

Methods: Women who received postpartum care in 2 large hospitals in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from August 18 to December 1, 2008, were surveyed in Creole about their use of medications in pregnancy, including fetal-harm drugs.

Results: We surveyed 482 women who had a median age of 26 years.