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Global Stories: Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS) Program
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07/09/2018
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Description:Every year, six million children die before their 5th birthday. CDC and partners are working to answer the critical question of why. CDC’s Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP) out of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) has teamed up with domestic and international partners to map the causes of child mortality in developing countries.
The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS) program is a network of disease surveillance sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia gathering data about why children under 5 die. Areas covered by the sites experience high child mortality rates, as defined by a population of at least 100,000 people and an under-5 mortality rate greater than 50 per 1,000 live births. Through CHAMPS, minimally invasive tissue sampling (post- mortem needle biopsies) on deceased children are gathered to determine causes of death. The ultimate goal of the program is to use the data to inform policies to reduce childhood mortality in these regions.
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