Publications by authors named "Francois Bezuidenhout"
Article Synopsis
- Verbal autopsy (VA) helps find out how people died when they weren't in a hospital, but it's hard to use it in official death records.
- In South Africa, researchers talked to families of people who died to collect information about causes of death in 2017/18.
- They found that while they could gather useful info, there were still challenges in getting enough people to participate, highlighting the need for better systems to record deaths.
Objectives: To describe the methodology used in a recent survey of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and to present the response rates.
Methods: A cross-sectional, national household-based survey was conducted using second-generation surveillance procedures. A complex multistage sampling technique was used to create a master sample of 1,000 census enumerator areas out of a total of 86,000 nationally.