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Kaya Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kaya HDSS)

Kaya HDSSActiveBurkina FasoEstablished 2007HDSS
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65,000
Cohort size
2007
Year started
Mixed
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 2007 across the town of Kaya and 18 surrounding villages (70% urban, 30% rural) in the Centre-Nord region of Burkina Faso. Open HDSS of 48,131 individuals in 7,682 households at baseline, updated every six months. Designed as a platform for evaluating health interventions in the Kaya health district.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

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Demographic surveillance
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Multi-disease

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 65,000 participants in a mixed setting in Burkina Faso, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2007
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
65,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
Burkina FasoMixed
Year started
2007Ongoing
Coordinates
13.0833, -1.0833Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)

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
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)
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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.