Since the publication of the first edition of "Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa" (report no. 9784 (1991 … surveillance sites, injury statistics from a small number of injury mortality surveillance registers, and cancer data from cancer … registers. Improved methods for estimating the incidence of several other diseases, including tuberculosis, maternal mortality …

, we estimate the effect of antimalarial policy implementation increases on subsequent changes in malaria mortality within … SSA countries. We find that policies included in Pillar 1 are key to reduce within-country malaria mortality: an increase … of 10 p.p. in policies implemented in this pillar generates a cumulative malaria mortality decrease of about 6 p.p. after …

and staffing; immediate breastfeeding and facility births; and neonatal mortality. We also extracted data on the primary … from 2001 to 2013. A 25 per cent reduction in neonatal mortality (relative risk, RR: 0.75; 95 per cent confidence interval …, CI: 0.69-0.80) was found when pooling six studies in settings with 44 or more deaths per 1,000 live births. In lower-mortality …