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CHAMPS is growing. We are accepting applications for a new CHAMPS site to be located in Nigeria, Pakistan, or Democratic Republic of the Congo. The first phase of the application process is the completion of the CHAMPS Site Assessment Survey. The survey is due Friday, September 10, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. EDT. Click here to (…)

CHAMPS published three new case studies today offering insights into how we transform data into action and work with partners to address under-five mortality: Malnutrition, A Major Health Challenge in Kersa, Ethiopia: Opportunities for Action from the CHAMPS network Catalyzing Data-to-Action in Western Kenya: A Case Study from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (…)

CHAMPS is proud to share our first-ever annual report. A review of our program’s fifth year (July 2019-June 2020), the report highlights progress toward our key objectives: finding and tracking the definitive causes of child mortality; generating, disseminating and encouraging the use of high-quality data to reduce the rate of child mortality around the world; (…)

A 3-year-old female died at home with fever, cough, trouble breathing, night sweats, convulsions, itch and a skin rash. Her death followed that of a younger sibling, and both children were not up to date on vaccinations.  Five days prior to death, she developed a fever, followed by three days of chest pain, a cough (…)

An 8-month old baby girl died at home after 3 days of vomiting and diarrhea, 5 days of poor feeding, 15 days of fever and cough, and 30 days of general illness. She was followed by the local health clinic for severe acute malnutrition and had been on nutritional supplements for two months with no (…)