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Little is known about the specific causes of neonatal and
                under-five childhood death in high-mortality geographic regions
                due to a lack of primary data and dependence on inaccurate
                tools, such as verbal autopsy. To meet the ambitious new
                Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 to eliminate preventable child
                mortality in every country, better approaches are needed to
                precisely determine specific causes of death so that prevention
                and treatment interventions can be strengthened and focused.
                Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is a technique that
                uses needle-based postmortem sampling, followed by advanced
                histopathology and microbiology to definitely determine cause of
                death. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting a
                new surveillance system called the Child Health and Mortality
                Prevention Surveillance network, which will determine cause of
                death using MITS in combination with other information, and
                yield cause-specific population-based mortality rates,
                eventually in up to 12-15 sites in sub-Saharan Africa and south
                Asia. However, the Gates Foundation funding alone is not enough.
                We call on governments, other funders, and international
                stakeholders to expand the use of pathology-based cause of death
                determination to provide the information needed to end
                preventable childhood mortality.

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The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0302

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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017,
                vol. 97, num. 1, p. 3-5

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)