Image with logo background

TAGS:

CHAMPS Findings

RELATED POSTS:

Case Study: CHAMPS Advocates for Grief Counselling for Bereaved Mothers in Soweto, South Africa Case Study: Health Demographic Surveillance System Mapping Experience and Mapping in Manyatta, Kenya Case Study: Creating a community-based program to transport high-risk and severely ill patients to health facilities in Manhiça district, Mozambique CHAMPS Scientists Present at PAS2023, ESPID2023 and the 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia 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 CHAMPS at #TropMed22 Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality Guidance for Systematic Integration of Undernutrition in Attributing Cause of Death in Children Insights on the differentiation of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths: A study from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network Group B streptococcus infection during pregnancy and infancy: estimates of regional and global burden

CHAMPS Study: Deaths Attributed to RSV in Young Children in High-Mortality Rate Settings

December 7, 2021

Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of death in young children, but few studies have collected the specimens needed to define the role of specific causes. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) platform aims to investigate causes of death in children aged <5 years in high–mortality rate settings, using postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling and other advanced diagnostic techniques. We examined findings for deaths identified in CHAMPS sites in 7 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia to evaluate the role of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Click below to read the article.

Deaths Attributed to Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Young Children in High–Mortality Rate Settings: Report from Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)

 

Authors: Dianna M Blau, Vicky L Baillie, Toyah Els, Sana Mahtab, Portia Mutevedzi, Adama Mamby Keita, Karen L Kotloff, Ashka Mehta, Samba O Sow, Milagritos D Tapia, Beth A Tippett Barr, Benard O Oluoch, Clayton Onyango, Gunturu Revathi, Jennifer R Verani, Mahlet Abayneh, Nega Assefa, Lola Madrid, Joseph O Oundo, J Anthony G Scott, Quique Bassat, Inacio Mandomando, Antonio Sitoe, Marta Valente, Rosauro Varo, Ima-Abasi Bassey, Carrie Jo Cain, Amara Jambai, Ikechukwu Ogbuanu, Julius Ojulong, Muntasir Alam, Shams El Arifeen, Emily S Gurley, Afruna Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman, Jessica L Waller, Betsy Dewey, Robert F Breiman, Cynthia G Whitney, Shabir A Madhi, CHAMPS Consortium