Introduction: Sepsis accounts for up to one-third of neonatal deaths in the world each year.
The World Health Organization acknowledges neonatal sepsis as a major global health …

Background Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems do not produce
comprehensive data on maternal and child deaths in most low-and middle-income countries …

Background Nigeria has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. Identifying
the causes of these deaths is crucial to inform changes in policy documents, design and …

Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood mortality remains high in low-and
middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children …

The majority (40%) of the world's under-five mortality burden is concentrated in nations like
Nigeria (16.5%), India (16%), Pakistan (8%), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to
assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper …

BACKGROUND Reducing child mortality in low-income countries is constrained by a lack of
vital statistics. In the absence of such data, verbal autopsies provide an acceptable method …

Objective To assess respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) compared with birth asphyxia as
the cause of death in preterm newborns, assigned by the neonatal intensive care unit …

Background Although the effectiveness of community mobilisation and promotive care
delivered by community health workers in reducing perinatal and neonatal mortality is well …

Objective To estimate the direct causes of mortality among preterm neonates< 33 weeks'
gestation by examining three large multicentric, hospital-based datasets in India. Method …