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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) office of the National Population Commission (NPC) has flagged off the 2024 Verbal and Social Autopsy (VASA) study, an initiative aimed at identifying the underlying causes of under-five and maternal mortality in Abuja.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during the flag-off ceremony on Tuesday, NPC Federal Commissioner for the FCT, Joseph Shazhin, said the study, which will run until December 15, 2024, will be conducted in selected communities across the six area councils in the FCT.<\/p>\n The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) office of the National Population Commission (NPC) has flagged off the 2024 Verbal and Social Autopsy (VASA) study, an initiative aimed at identifying the underlying causes of under-five and maternal mortality in Abuja. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony on Tuesday, NPC Federal Commissioner for the FCT, Joseph Shazhin, said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,7325,258,256,8438,21525,10165,12678,257,4687,393,22979,254,8420],"class_list":["post-186448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-flags","tag-maternal","tag-mortality","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-npc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survey"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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