Browsing Department of Medical Biochemistry by Subject "The Kombewa HDSS has established itself as a platform capable of supporting regulated clinical trials (Phase I to Phase IV) to evaluate vaccines, drugs or diagnostic platforms for a variety of pathogens found in sub-Saharan Africa. The Kombewa HDSS has been used to support health research by generating sampling frames and developing successful recruitment and retention strategies for both paediatric and adult clinical studies. Household morbidity data from the Kombewa DSS reveal a high burden of malaria (184 cases/1000/year) with an estimated under-five mortality ratio of 118/1000 live births for 2013. Why was the HDSS set u"
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Health & demographic surveillance system profile: the Kombewa health and demographic surveillance system (Kombewa HDSS)
(Oxford University Press, 2014)The Kombewa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) grew out of the Kombewa Clinical Research Centre in 2007 and has since established itself as a platform for the conduct of regulated clinical trials, nested ...