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Nanoro Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Nanoro HDSS)

Nanoro HDSSActiveBurkina FasoEstablished 2009HDSS
66,500
Cohort size
2009
Year started
Rural
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 2009 in Nanoro, a rural area of central Burkina Faso, with baseline of 61,632 individuals (2010) and 50,000–60,000 followed per wave (now ~66,500). Open household panel with home visits every four months. Operates under IRSS-CRUN as a major platform for clinical trials (malaria vaccines, etc.) and broader epidemiological research.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

Demographic surveillance
Malaria
Clinical Trials Platform

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 66,500 participants in a rural setting in Burkina Faso, 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.
Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
HDSS
Cohort size
66,500Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
Burkina FasoRural
Year started
2009Ongoing
Coordinates
12.7, -2.1Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (IRSS-CRUN)

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
Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (IRSS-CRUN)
Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.