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PLoS MEDICINE Core Verbal Autopsy Procedures with Comparative Validation Results from Two Countries 1,2* 3 1,4 1,5 6 7 Philip W. Setel , Chalapati Rao , Yusuf Hemed , David R. Whiting , Gonghuan Yang , Daniel Chandramohan , 8 3 K. G. M. M. Alberti , Alan D. Lopez 1 MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia, 4 Tanzania Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 5 University of Newcastle upon Tyne School of Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 6 Center of Non- Communicable Diseases and Behavioral Risk Factor Studies, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, 7 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 8 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Funding: Funding for the preparation A B S T R A C T of this article was provided through MEASURE Evaluation, Phase 2, a USAID Cooperative Agreement (# Background GPO-A-00-03-00003–00) implemented by the Carolina Population Center, Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This publication was also