About LVASA-SRS
The LVASA-SRS is championed by the Lagos State Government in collaboration with researchers from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
The LVASA-SRS project will implement a Sample Registration System (SRS) that utilises Verbal Autopsy and Social Autopsy (VASA) methods. This is a 2-phase project that will generate reliable estimates for maternal deaths, and stillbirths in Lagos State as well as determine the social, cultural, and health system factors that contribute to these deaths.
The first phase of data collection will focus on retrospective data of births including live births, maternal deaths, and stillbirths that have occurred in the year preceding the start of the study while the second phase will be a prospective estimation of maternal deaths and stillbirths that occur over twelve months from year 2024
Definition of Terms
- Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS): This is a system that registers all births and deaths, issues birth and death certificates, and compiles and disseminates vital statistics, including cause of death information. The system may also record marriages and divorces.
- Sample Registration System (SRS): This is a sampling technique used to estimate vital rates in a population by registering and verifying vital events in a representative sample.
- Verbal Autopsy (VA): This is a method used to determine the cause of death through interviews with the deceased person’s next of kin or caregivers.
- Social Autopsy (SA): This is a process that examines the social and political conditions that contributed to the death of a group of people.
Activities / Videos / Photo reel
The LVASA-SRS project held A 4-day scientific workshop from the 19th – 22nd February 2025 to review results from data generated on maternal deaths across Lagos State from over the past one year. The meeting took a deep dive into the data generated during this period. This meeting was facilitated with support from The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).