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Case Studies
September 6, 2023
Case Study: CHAMPS Advocates for Grief Counselling for Bereaved Mothers in Soweto, South Africa
The CHAMPS team in South Africa has published a new case study on the importance and impact that grief...
Case Studies
September 6, 2023
Case Study: Health Demographic Surveillance System Mapping Experience and Mapping in Manyatta, Kenya
The CHAMPS team in Kenya has published a new case study on the integrated Health and Demographic Surve...
Case Studies
September 6, 2023
Case Study: Creating a community-based program to transport high-risk and severely ill patients to health facilities in Manhiça district, Mozambique
The CHAMPS team in Mozambique has published a new case study on how to approach transportation issues ...
Conferences and Meetings
May 17, 2023
CHAMPS Scientists Present at PAS2023, ESPID2023 and the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
CHAMPS not only generates data on child mortality, but we also share our findings to empower preventio...
Scientific Publications
January 3, 2023
Traditional Medicine Beliefs and Practices among Caregivers of Children under Five Years—The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), Western Kenya: A qualitative study
Approximately 80% of the population residing in sub-Saharan Africa relies on Traditional Medicine (TM)...
Conferences and Meetings
October 26, 2022
CHAMPS at #TropMed22
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) hosted its 71st Annual Meeting from O...
Scientific Publications
October 24, 2022
Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality
Although child mortality trends have decreased worldwide, deaths among children younger than 5 years o...
Scientific Publications
September 19, 2022
Guidance for Systematic Integration of Undernutrition in Attributing Cause of Death in Children
Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is increasingly being used to better understand causes of de...
Scientific Publications
September 13, 2022
Insights on the differentiation of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths: A study from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network
The high burden of stillbirths and neonatal deaths is driving global initiatives to improve birth outc...
Scientific Publications
September 13, 2022
Group B streptococcus infection during pregnancy and infancy: estimates of regional and global burden
Group B streptococcus (GBS) colonisation during pregnancy can lead to invasive GBS disease (iGBS) in i...
Case Studies
June 28, 2022
Case Study: Identifying Delays and Barriers to Care in Mali
The CHAMPS team in Mali has published a new case study providing a retrospective review of CHAMPS case...
Case Examples
March 23, 2022
An early neonate who died of hyaline membrane disease, complicated by bilateral pneumothorax, premature birth and maternal hypertension
An HIV-positive mother gave birth to a 30-week-old baby girl upon arriving at the hospital with gestat...
Conferences and Meetings
March 8, 2022
Webinar – A Deeper Dive into CHAMPS Data
Join Dr. Dianna Blau for another interactive session on using and analyzing CHAMPS data. Building on o...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Investigating the Feasibility of Child Mortality Surveillance With Postmortem Tissue Sampling: Generating Constructs and Variables to Strengthen Validity and Reliability in Qualitative Research
The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network aims to generate reliable data...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Unraveling Specific Causes of Neonatal Mortality Using Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling: An Observational Study
Postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is a potential alternative to the gold standard c...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Sneathia amnii and Maternal Chorioamnionitis and Stillbirth, Mozambique.
We report a case of Sneathia amnii as the causative agent of maternal chorioamnionitis and congenital ...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Pregnancy Surveillance Methods within Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
Pregnancy identification and follow-up surveillance can enhance the reporting of pregnancy outcomes, i...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Qualitative Study: Rumor Surveillance in Support of MITS
In low-and middle-income countries, determining the cause of death of any given individual is impaired...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Initial CHAMPS findings published in Lancet Global Health
Findings from a multi-site analysis of CHAMPS cases were published in The Lancet Global Health. This a...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
CHAMPS Study: Deaths Attributed to RSV in Young Children in High-Mortality Rate Settings
Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of death in young children, but few studies hav...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
CHAMPS Data in Research: Global RSV-Related Infant Community Deaths
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of pediatric death, with >99% of mortality occ...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
Diarrhoeal diseases in Soweto, South Africa, 2020: a cross-sectional community survey
In South Africa, there are limited data on the burden of diarrhoea at a community level, specifically ...
Scientific Publications
December 7, 2021
COVID-19 Testing Experience in a Resource-Limited Setting: The Use of Existing Facilities in Public Health Emergency Management
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency with little testing and treatment exp...
Scientific Publications
November 29, 2021
Consent to minimally invasive tissue sampling procedures in children in Mozambique: A mixed-methods study
This study undertook a mixed-methods analysis comparing anticipated (hypothetical scenario) and experi...
Case Studies
November 23, 2021
Case Study: Improving Death Notifications at Hiwot Fana Hospital
CHAMPS published a new case study led by Tseyon Tesfaye, a researcher at the CHAMPS Ethiopia site. Thi...
Conferences and Meetings
November 22, 2021
CHAMPS #TropMed21 Presentations
CHAMPS researchers represented the network with great spirit at the 70th annual ASTMH meeting this pas...
Conferences and Meetings
November 12, 2021
CHAMPS #TropMed21 Schedule
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) will hold its 70th Annual Meeting virtua...
Conferences and Meetings
November 4, 2021
Webinar Recording – CHAMPS Social-Behavioral Sciences Presentation and Discussion
Thank you to everyone who attended our session with Social-Behavioral Science leaders across the CHAMP...
Scientific Publications
October 15, 2021
Postmortem investigations and identification of multiple causes of child deaths: An analysis of findings from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network
The current burden of >5 million deaths yearly is the focus of the Sustainable Development Goal (SD...
Scientific Publications
September 1, 2021
CHAMPS Scientific Publications
Articles are ordered by date of publication, beginning with the most recent. Building a Sample Vital S...
Case Examples
January 12, 2021
A neonate who died of sepsis, complicated by measles infection
A 19-day old male who was born early (at 35 weeks’ gestation) died after being hospitalized for just o...
Case Examples
January 4, 2021
An infant with severe acute malnutrition died at home with a respiratory infection which led to identification of a notifiable condition
An 8-month old baby girl died at home after 3 days of vomiting and diarrhea, 5 days of poor feeding, 1...
Conferences and Meetings
November 19, 2020
CHAMPS presentations from #TropMed20 now available!
CHAMPS was honored to be among those presenting at the 69th annual ASTMH meeting last week! Colleagues...