Reporting Deaths Among Children Aged <5 Years After the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2015–2016

Wilkinson, Amanda L.; Kaiser, Reinhard; Jalloh, Mohamed F.; Kamara, Mamudi; Blau, Dianna M.; Raghunathan, Pratima L.; Kamara, Alpha; Kamara, Umaru; Houston-Suluku, Nathaniel; Clarke, Kevin; Jambai, Amara; Redd, John T.; Hersey, Sara; Osaio-Kamara, Brima

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Reporting Deaths Among Children Aged <5 Years After the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2015–2016

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Oct 20 2017

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http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6641a5

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MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 66(41):1116-1118.

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Wilkinson, Amanda L. ; Kaiser, Reinhard ; Jalloh, Mohamed F. ; Kamara, Mamudi ; Blau, Dianna M. ; ... More ▼

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Epidemic Intelligence Service. ; Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global Health Protection. ;

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Mortality surveillance and vital registration are limited in Sierra Leone, a country with one of the highest mortality rates among children aged <5 years worldwide, approximately 120 deaths per 1,000 live births (1,2). To inform efforts to strengthen surveillance, stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years from multiple surveillance streams in Bombali Sebora chiefdom were retrospectively reviewed. In total, during January 2015-November 2016, 930 deaths in children aged <5 years were identified, representing 73.3% of the 1,269 deaths that were expected based on modeled estimates. The "117" telephone alert system established during the Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic captured 683 (73.4%) of all reported deaths in children aged <5 years, and was the predominant reporting source for stillbirths (n = 172). In the absence of complete vital events registration, 117 call alerts markedly improved the completeness of reporting of stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years.

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Sierra Leone

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