Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: The Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Magu HDSS).

ABSTRACT: The Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Magu HDSS) is part of Kisesa OpenCohort HIV Study located in a rural area of North-Western Tanzania. Since its establishment in 1994, information on pregnancies, births, marriages, migrations and deaths have been monitored and updated between one and three times a year by trained fieldworkers. Other research activities implemented in the cohort include: sero surveys which have been conducted every 2-3 years to collect socioeconomic data, HIV sero status and health knowledge attitude and behaviour in adults aged 15 years or more living in the area; verbal autopsy (VA) interviews conducted to establish cause of death in all deaths encountered in the area; Llnking data collected at health facilities to community-based data; monitoring volun

SUBMITTER: Kishamawe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4911678 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature