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Nigeria is a leading contributor to global child deaths, accounting for about 10 percent and 12 percent, respectively, of all neonatal deaths and stillbirths.

In the November 2021 issue of Health Affairs, Edward Okeke and coauthors present evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic worsened birth outcomes in Nigeria. Studying women who gave birth between August 2019 and November 2020, they found that the pandemic was associated with a 22 percent relative increase in stillbirths and a 23 percent relative increase in newborn deaths.

Child mortality was essentially flat in the months leading up to the pandemic, but started to increase by May 2020.

“Commentators have noted that low- and middle-income countries such as Nigeria have experienced a relatively low number of COVID-19 deaths, but our findings indicate that there are many more deaths attributable to the pandemic that are not being counted,” they write.

For all of Health Affairs’ pandemic-related content, visit our COVID-19 Resource Center.

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Tod Ibrahim and Kevin Longino argue that Congress and the Biden administration must include kidney research in any future funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a new GrantWatch post, Tina Kauh argues that more financial support from funders is needed to disaggregate health care data and adequately capture racial and ethnic diversity.

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The centerpiece of the December Health Affairs Journal Club meeting is “Despite National Declines In Kidney Failure Incidence, Disparities Widened Between Low- And High-Poverty Counties.” In the paper, which will appear in the December 2021 issue of the journal, Kevin Nguyen and coauthors examine trends in the incidence of kidney failure by county-level poverty among US adults between 2000 and 2017. While national estimates suggest that overall rates are declining, the authors found marked disparity in incidence of kidney failure between low- and high-poverty counties.

Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica Bylander will host Nguyen, an investigator in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, to talk in detail about the research, methods, and conclusions of the paper, including changes in policy and care delivery that will be required to close the gap for low-income areas and communities.

Date:     Thursday, December 9, 2021
Time:     1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Place:    Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in advance of the event.

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