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The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of and associated factors of postnatal fever among postnatal women at Kawempe National Referral Hospital. Three hundred postnatal women were recruited. Temperature measurements were conducted and a 29-item questionnaire was completed along with the extraction of health history from the medical records of the participants. The prevalence of maternal fever was 58\/300 (19.3%). Multivariable analysis indicated that only four factors\u2014HIV-positive status (AOR = 2.56; 95% CI = 1.02\u20136.37), labor complications (AOR = 6.53; 95% CI = 2.40\u201317.71), prolonged labor (AOR = 3.12; 95% CI = 1.11\u20138.87), and more than 24 h spent in postnatal care (AOR = 5.16; 95% CI = 2.19\u201312.16)\u2014were found to be significantly associated with postnatal fever. The prevalence of postnatal maternal fever among postnatal women at Kawempe National Referral Hospital was higher than that in other reports in the literature. The factors significantly associated with maternal fever were HIV-positive status, complications during labor, prolonged labor, and more than 24 h spent in postnatal care. 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