Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS)
AHDSS includes all residents of all ages of the Agincourt sub-district of the Bushbuckridge district in Mpumalanga Province in northeast South Africa near the border of Mozambique. Temporary in or out migrants are eligible to join the cohort if they reside in the study area for more than six months of the year and retain close ties to the community. At baseline, the study population included over 57,000 people within 8,900 households in 20 villages. In 2007, the study area was expanded to include 7 more villages, bringing the total to 27.
Study design
Cohort - open, Cohort - research programme
Number of participants at first data collection
57,600 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
The Agincourt sub-district of the Bushbuckridge district of South Africa.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1992
Primary Institutions
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Wellcome Trust
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
