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Peer-reviewed
Research Article
Counting missing babies in Tanzania: Neonatal mortality data quality from Tanzania’s District Health Information System across 28 Regional and 7 Tertiary hospitals (2015–2024)
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Josephine Shabani ,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jshabani@ihi.or.tz
Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Nahya Salim,
Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Lucas Malla,
Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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James H. Cross,
Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Rebecca E. Penzias,
Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Audêncio Victor,
Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Christine Bohne,
Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
⨯ - Ahmad Mohamed Makuwani,
- Habib Ismail,
- Felix Bundala,
- Claud Kumalija,
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Morris Ondieki,
Roles Data curation
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
⨯ - Prosper Mshana,
- Jacqueline Minja,
- Irabi Kassim,
- Jennie Jaribu,
- Honorati Masanja,
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Eric O. Ohuma ,
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ Joint senior authors.
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Joy E. Lawn
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ Joint senior authors.
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Counting missing babies in Tanzania: Neonatal mortality data quality from Tanzania’s District Health Information System across 28 Regional and 7 Tertiary hospitals (2015–2024)
- Josephine Shabani,
- Nahya Salim,
- Lucas Malla,
- James H. Cross,
- Rebecca E. Penzias,
- Audêncio Victor,
- Christine Bohne,
- Ahmad Mohamed Makuwani,
- Habib Ismail,
- Felix Bundala
- Published: July 23, 2026
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0348874