Zambia National Public Health Institute · Surveillance & Disease Intelligence
Zambia National Public Health Institute Verbal Autopsy CMS
Demonstration site. All mortality figures shown here are synthetic sample data generated for design review — they are not real verbal autopsy records.
Verbal Autopsy System

Counting every death, understanding every cause

National mortality intelligence from community verbal autopsy.

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The national picture

Headline figures drawn live from the verbal autopsy database.

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Verbal autopsies recorded

All interviews held in the national VA database

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Cause of death assigned

0 records through the full coding pipeline

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Districts reporting

Sentinel and routine sites submitting data

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Mean turnaround

Death notification to assigned cause

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Recorded this year

Deaths occurring in 2026

Mortality statistics

Two views of the data. The full dashboard carries cause, geography, demography and data-quality reporting.

Verbal autopsies over time

Interviews completed and causes assigned, by month of death

  • Interviews completed
  • Cause assigned

Coding lags interview completion by roughly one reporting cycle.

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Verbal autopsies over time — Interviews completed and causes assigned, by month of death
Category Interviews completedCause assigned

Leading causes of death

Top 0 assigned causes across all reporting districts

Causes follow the WHO 2022 verbal autopsy cause list.

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Leading causes of death — Top 0 assigned causes across all reporting districts
Category Deaths

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Pillars

What the verbal autopsy programme is built to deliver.

News & Health Press

Bulletins, features and programme updates.

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Latest resources

Guidelines, tools and forms used across the VA programme.

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Our partners

The verbal autopsy programme is delivered with national and international partners.

Need access to verbal autopsy data?

Researchers, districts and partner programmes can request aggregate extracts or system accounts through the VA data team.

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