Fact Sheet: SAVVY: A Toolset for Counting Every Person


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Year: 2006

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Accurate information about basic demographic events – births, deaths, and causes of death – is important for rational health and public policy. Yet most of the world’s poorest countries lack reliable sources for these vital statistics. Sample vital registration with verbal autopsy can help solve that.

Filed under: Vital Registration , HIV/AIDS , Public Health