DHS in the News
Journalists worldwide write about The DHS Program results. The dissemination of DHS, SPA and HIV data is often widely covered by media in survey countries, but journalists also use The DHS Program data throughout the year as background information for their stories, or to compare health and development indicators across countries. These data are also used by journalists in the United States and other developed countries, as it is considered the gold standard of population, health and nutrition data. Below are some examples of recent news coverage. Please note: The links below are to websites outside The DHS Program.
Why should we care about measuring coverage of maternal newborn and child health interventions
PLOS Blogs
"...Countdown also drew new attention to how we were actually measuring coverage, and the indicators we were using. Almost all coverage data for MNCH interventions come from one of two global survey programs: the USAID-supported Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and the UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). Without these two crucial programs, most governments and their partners would have no data on coverage for their health intervention programs. But close scrutiny of these survey programs revealed aspects of coverage measurement through household surveys that could be improved..."
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