2024
DOI: 10.12688/gatesopenres.15986.1
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Laying the foundations for high-quality mortality surveillance in Sierra Leone: Early learnings from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network

Sorie I B Kamara,
Dickens Kowuor,
Solomon S Samura
et al.

Abstract: Background More than four million child deaths occur annually; most are neither adequately documented nor investigated. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) program was launched in Sierra Leone (SL) to generate high-quality data to determine definitive causes of stillbirths and under-five mortality (U5M) to inform decision-makers. Despite the multiple challenges of a greenfield research site, we highlight the experience of setting up a high-quality mortality surveillance (MS) system,… Show more

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