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Kimpese Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kimpese HDSS)

Kimpese HDSSActiveDRCEstablished 2018HDSS
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60,000
Cohort size
2018
Year started
Rural
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 2018 in the Health Zone of Kimpese (HZK), Kongo Central province, western DR Congo. Open household panel of 58,845 individuals in over 14,000 households at baseline, followed up every four months. Supported by Belgian Development Cooperation; hosts several nested sub-studies on demographic, economic, health and social outcomes.

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 60,000 participants in a rural setting in DRC, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2018
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
60,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
DRCRural
Year started
2018Ongoing
Coordinates
-5.3833, 14.25Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN)

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
University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN)
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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.