Leading causes of death and high mortality rates in an HIV endemic setting (Kisumu county, Kenya, 2019)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 1; p. e0261162
• Main Authors: Waruru, Anthony, Onyango, Dickens, Nyagah, Lilly, Sila, Alex, Waruiru, Wanjiru, Sava, Solomon, Oele, Elizabeth, Nyakeriga, Emmanuel, Muuo, Sheru W, Kiboye, Jacqueline, Musingila, Paul K, van der Sande, Marianne A B, Massawa, Thaddeus, Rogena, Emily A, DeCock, Kevin M, Young, Peter W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.01.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; AIDS; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiovascular diseases; Cause of Death; Charts; Chi-square test; Child; Child, Preschool; Death; Endemic Diseases; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Female; Forecasts and trends; Global Burden of Disease; HIV; HIV infection; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HIV Infections - mortality; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Infant; Infectious diseases; Kenya; Kenya - epidemiology; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medicine and Health Sciences; Men; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mortuaries; Patient outcomes; People and Places; Public health; Statistical tests; Statistics; Tuberculosis; Young Adult; Kenya; Nairobi Kenya; Netherlands; Belgium; United States > US; Kisumu Kenya

In resource-limited settings, underlying causes of death (UCOD) often are not ascertained systematically, leading to unreliable mortality statistics. We reviewed medical charts to establish UCOD for decedents at two high volume mortuaries in Kisumu County, Kenya, and compared ascertained UCOD to tho...