Cohort profile:: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey
Cohort profile:: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey
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DOI：
10.1093/ije/dym211
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Newell, Marie-Louise
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作者：
Tanser, Frank;Hosegood, Victoria;Newell, Marie-Louise
由于艾滋病毒的迅速蔓延，南非人口的健康和人口结构发生了重大变化。夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学的研究人员和南非医学研究理事会在1997年建立了非洲健康和人口研究中心，该中心由英国威康信托基金会的一笔大额核心赠款资助。鉴于迫切需要高质量的纵向数据来监测这些变化，并利用这些数据来评价减轻影响的干预措施，在面临迅速和严重的艾滋病毒流行的南非农村人口中建立了人口监测系统。发展支助事务被称为非洲中心人口信息系统（ACDIS），开始于2000年。2003年，ACDIS通过年度调查开始进行基于人群的艾滋病毒检测（也由英国威康信托基金资助）。在这篇文章中，我们试图描述ACDIS和基于人群的HIV队列的最显著特征，并简要介绍一些迄今为止最重要的结果。
The health and demography of the South African population has been undergoing substantial changes as a result of the rapidly progressing HIV epidemic. Researchers at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the South African Medical Research Council established The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in 1997 funded by a large core grant from The Wellcome Trust, UK. Given the urgent need for high quality longitudinal data with which to monitor these changes, and with which to evaluate interventions to mitigate impact, a demographic surveillance system (DSS) was established in a rural South African population facing a rapid and severe HIV epidemic. 1 The DSS, referred to as the Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS), started in 2000. In 2003, population-based HIV testing (also funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK) was started in ACDIS through annual surveys. In this article, we seek to describe the most salient features of ACDIS and the population-based HIV cohort and briefly present some of the most important results to date.