Abstract
The objective was to assess the pregnant women's awareness and perception about medicines' uses during pregnancy. A cross-sectional study was conducted. Pretested questionnaire was randomly distributed in Wad-Medani City, Gezira State, Sudan. The majority (87.6%) of participants tend to visit their doctors regularly, while (15.2%) never use medicines during pregnancy. Overall (74.4%) of the pregnant women agreed that, all medicines are not poisons. Significant association was observed when the respondents' occupation was cross-matched with the concept of whether medicines are poisonous or not (P = 0.033). Less than one-third of pregnant women believed that natural remedies could generally be used during pregnancy. The younger women (41.4%) have more tendency to use the natural remedies than elders do (22.2%), (P < 0.001). The conclusion was a great number of pregnant women had inadequate knowledge about medicines. Medicines' information strategies should be implemented to improve awareness of medicines usage among pregnant women in Sudan.