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Manhiça Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Manhiça HDSS)

Manhiça HDSSActiveMozambiqueEstablished 1996Open Cohort Sero-surveillance
170,000
Cohort size
1996
Year started
Mixed
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
Open Cohort Sero-surveillance
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 1996 in Manhiça district, southern Mozambique, initially covering 32,471 individuals; expanded in 2014 to the entire district and over 200,000 individuals by 2019. Continuous event recording with periodic surveillance rounds and linkage to clinical records. Premier African platform for malaria, HIV, TB and invasive bacterial-disease research and vaccine evaluation.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

Malaria
HIV/AIDS
TB
Invasive Bacterial Disease
Vaccines

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 170,000 participants in a mixed setting in Mozambique, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

1996
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
Open Cohort Sero-surveillance
Cohort size
170,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
MozambiqueMixed
Year started
1996Ongoing
Coordinates
-25.4, 32.85Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

Manhiça Health Research Centre (Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, CISM)

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
Manhiça Health Research Centre (Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, CISM)
Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.