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Recall period for mortality assessment was from 21 June 2001 to 15-31 August 2002.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Setting<\/jats:bold>\n                    Eleven resettlement camps over four provinces of Angola (Bi\u00e9, Cuando Cubango, Huila, and Malange) housing 149 000 former UNITA members and their families.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Participants<\/jats:bold>\n                    900 consenting family heads of households, or most senior household members, corresponding to an intended sample size of 4500 individuals.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Main outcome measures<\/jats:bold>\n                    Crude mortality and proportional mortality, overall and by period (monthly, and before and after arrival in camps).\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>\n                    Final sample included 6599 people. The 390 deaths reported during the recall period corresponded to an average crude mortality of 1.5\/10 000\/day (95% confidence interval 1.3 to 1.8), and, among children under 5 years old, to 4.1\/10 000\/day (3.3 to 5.2). Monthly crude mortality rose gradually to a peak in March 2002 and remained above emergency thresholds thereafter. Malnutrition was the leading cause of death (34%), followed by fever or malaria (24%) and war or violence (18%). Most war victims and people who had disappeared were women and children.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>\n                    This population of displaced Angolans experienced global and child mortality greatly in excess of normal levels, both before and after the 2002 ceasefire. Malnutrition deaths reflect the extent of the food crisis affecting this population. 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