“An accurate understanding of global child mortality and health is severely limited by inadequate methods and measurements. Less than 20% of the 192 countries in the world have high-quality death registry data, and more than one-third do not have any specific mortality registry data. For this reason, tracking the mortality of under-five children is at the forefront of public health priorities. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Mozambique, children often die without a documented medical history and are often buried before the cause of death (COD) determination has been conducted.”

Above is an excerpt from the article “A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Its Determinants in the Implementation of Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling in Children in Quelimane City, Mozambique.” This article is one of the eight articles and two editorials featured in the supplement titled “Building a Sample Vital Statistics System: Results from Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA) in Mozambique,” published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 

COMSA is a CHAMPS partner working in both Mozambique and Sierra Leone. Over the years, COMSA Mozambique has produced national data on causes of mortality and has been instrumental in building vital statistics infrastructure to support health programs. The supplement also featured other articles featured several articles highlighting CHAMPS and COMSA Mozambique findings and achievements. 

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Building a Sample Vital Statistics System: Results from Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action (COMSA) in Mozambique

Additional coverage on the supplement

https://jornalnoticias.co.mz/ciencia-e-ambiente/um-em-cada-quatro-partos-ocorre-fora-das-unidades-sanitarias/

https://ins.gov.mz/lancados-relatorios-sobre-causas-de-morte-em-mocambique/