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Research data: INFANT MORTALITY
2019 Impact of male partner involvement on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and HIV free survival among HIV-exposed infants in rural South Africa: results from a two phase randomised controlled trial
The Sub-Saharan Africa region still remains the epicentre of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. With regards to new paediatric HIV infections, al...
2019 Training and evaluation of community health workers (CHWs): towards improving maternal and newborn survival in an urban setting in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
In South Africa, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are a key component of community outreach teams as part of Primary Health Care (PHC) re-eng...
2017 Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to t...
Download this report2012 Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult diabetes risk in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts
We examined associations of birth weight and weight gain in infancy and early childhood with type 2 diabetes (DM) risk in five cohorts from ...