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Setting priorities in child health research investments for South Africa

It is estimated that nearly 100, 000 children under 5 years of age still die each year in South Africa (SA). The aim of this paper is to define health research priorities at the national level to address the unacceptably high under-five mortality rate. The authors applied the methodology for setting priorities in health research investments recently developed by Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) of the Global Forum for Health Research. Two working groups were assembled: a group of 6 national technical experts and a larger reference group (LRG) of 30 representatives of stakeholder groups. For each of the seven main causes of child deaths in SA (HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, neonatal conditions, malnutrition, accidents and injuries, congenital and genetic disorders), technical experts proposed 9 research options that they considered research priorities. This was done in a structured way to ensure that the proposed research options equally address all three instruments of health research (health policy and systems research, research on improving the existing health interventions and research on developing new interventions).

research priorities ; child health

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