Birth Cohort in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan

Launched by THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN · Sep 5, 2014

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ClinConnect Summary

In 2010, 7.6 million children under the age of five died worldwide (Liu et al., 2012). Notably, the burden of under-five mortality varies dramatically by country. The majority of total child deaths in 2010 were seen in Africa (3.6 million) and southeast Asia (2.1 million deaths), compared to 0.16 million and 0.28 million under-five deaths in Europe and the Americas, respectively (Liu et al., 2012). Strikingly, nearly half of the world's under-five child deaths in 2010 could be attributed to only five countries: India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, and China (Liu et al...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • All pregnant women and their home- or facility-born live newborns that consented to participate in the control arm of the intervention trial "An integrated toolkit to save newborn lives in Pakistan" (NCT02130856) will be eligible for this study
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Did not consent to participate in the control arm of "An integrated toolkit to save newborn lives in Pakistan"(NCT02130856). Since the birth cohort study has been designed to utilize a portion of the data collected in the neonatal kit trial, individuals who do not enroll in the kit study will not be eligible to participate in birth cohort study as they will not have a complete set of data.
• • Failure to provide consent to enroll in this study.