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. 2020 Dec;10(2):020368.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020368.

National Sample Vital Registration System: A sustainable platform for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases surveillance in low and middle-income countries

Agbessi Amouzou  1 , Almamy Kante  1 , Ivalda Macicame  2 , Adriano Antonio  3 , Eduardo Gudo  2 , Pedro Duce  3 , Robert E Black  1
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National Sample Vital Registration System: A sustainable platform for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases surveillance in low and middle-income countries

Agbessi Amouzou et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author). All authors are funded by the BMGF for the implementation of the COMSA project in Mozambique.

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Photo: From COMSA Project showing interview of a mother with a baby. Data are collected directly on a phone (from the authors’ own collection, used with permission).
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