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Africa Health Research Institute Health and Demographic Surveillance System (AHRI HDSS)

AHRI HDSSActiveSouth AfricaEstablished 2000HDSS
155,000
Cohort size
2000
Year started
Rural
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Africa Health Research Institute Health and Demographic Surveillance System (AHRI HDSS) is a hdss cohort in South Africa, established in 2000. It covers approximately 155,000 participants in a rural setting, spanning All ages (all). Led by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), its research focuses on hiv/aids, demographic surveillance, multi-disease.

AI-generated summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

HIV/AIDS
Demographic surveillance
Multi-disease

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 155,000 participants in a rural setting in South Africa, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2000
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
HDSS
Cohort size
155,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
South AfricaRural
Year started
2000Ongoing
Coordinates
-28.1446, 31.8648Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

Lead institution(s); partners and governance to be confirmed.

Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)

Partner institutions & governance arrangements — To be confirmed

Nested studies & sub-cohorts

Studies built on this cohort platform.

Nested studies / sub-cohorts — To be confirmed.

FAIR readiness

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable assessment.

F · TBCA · TBCI · TBCR · TBC
FAIR assessment pending — to be completed with the cohort custodian against the APCC metadata standard.

Investigators

Principal investigators and ORCID identifiers.

Information pending validation.

Publications & evidence

Outputs, policy briefs and research evidence.

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Publications, policy briefs and research outputs to be linked from Africahied. To be confirmed.

Data access & governance

How the data can be accessed and governed.

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Access procedure
Managed access via the cohort custodian
Request
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Ethics & governance
To be confirmed

Collaboration opportunities

Partnerships and capacity strengthening.

Collaboration opportunities, capacity-strengthening and partnership details. To be confirmed.

Contact

How to reach the cohort team or request access.

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Lead institution
Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.