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Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (Arba Minch HDSS)

Arba Minch HDSSActiveEthiopiaEstablished 2009HDSS
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138,000
Cohort size
2009
Year started
Mixed
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (Arba Minch HDSS) is a hdss cohort in Ethiopia, established in 2009. It covers approximately 138,000 participants in a mixed setting, spanning All ages (all). Led by Arba Minch University, its research focuses on demographic surveillance, maternal & child health, multi-disease.

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Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

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Demographic surveillance
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Maternal & Child Health
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Multi-disease

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 138,000 participants in a mixed setting in Ethiopia, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2009
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
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Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
HDSS
Cohort size
138,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
EthiopiaMixed
Year started
2009Ongoing
Coordinates
6.0333, 37.55Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

Arba Minch University

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
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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
Arba Minch University
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Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.