We Build Knowledge to Save Children’s Lives

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 (…)

CHAMPS was honored to be among those presenting at the 69th annual ASTMH meeting last week! Colleagues from our 7 sites in Africa and Asia, and the U.S. program office came together for more than 30 presentations, including a symposium on antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections as a cause of stillbirth and child death.   We (…)

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 (…)