The National Population Commission says it will collaborate with Federal Ministry of Health to implement the 2019 Verbal and Social Autopsy Survey VASA for up-to-date information on causes of under five deaths.
The Project Director, Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey NDHS, Amaka Ezenwa, said today in Abuja that VASA is a follow up to the 2018 NDHS, and expected to commence data collection as soon as possible.
Ezenwa, who is also the Deputy Director, Research and Planning at the commission, said that VASA was to help in getting the accurate preventive, cultural, behavioural, social and health system to determine neonatal and post neonatal mortality.
The project director added that the outcome of the survey would assist policy makers in designing and monitoring child health programmes and strategies.
She explained that the 2019 VASA was facilitated by Social Solution International Inc. through the USAID funded coordinating implementation research to communicate learning and evidence projects.
