Revolves around a surveillance of burials at all known cemeteries of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Surveillance started in 2001 and is ongoing. Basic socio-demographic information including the lay report of the cause of death is collected for about 20,000 deaths a year. Verbal autopsy interviews are conducted with relatives or caretakers of the deceased for a random sample of records. The data that have been made available for public use pertain to the 1st 5 years of the burial surveillance, including a set of adult verbal autopsy interviews that were conducted in 2004. Ad-hoc data collection initiatives (not included in this release) include a surveillance of hospital deaths (2001), and a surveillance of hospital admissions (incl. serostatus information) of patients admitted to the Zewditu Memorial Hospital (2003).
