#demographic-and-health-surveys

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2 days ago

Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?

Ending the DHS would be catastrophic," says Peter Macharia, a spatial epidemiologist from Kenya, now at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. Macharia says his PhD on child health interventions was based entirely on DHS data from Kenya. "Where would we get our new statistics from? We would not know what is happening in terms of health in the communities and the needs in each area," he says.
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