Key facts
Contents & fields
The dataset includes baseline survey data on cognitive and physical functioning, social networks, cardiometabolic disease and risk factors, HIV and HIV risk, and economic well-being, along with anthropometric measures and point-of-care blood tests (hemoglobin, glucose, lipids). Future releases will include dried blood spot results (HIV, viral load, HbA1c, CRP) and laboratory follow-up data. No field-level documentation is provided on the source page.
Research uses
Suitable for studies on aging, health transitions, chronic disease epidemiology, HIV, and socioeconomic factors in rural Africa.
This card was drafted from the source page; institution, coverage, time span, scale, fields and license are subject to the official page (pending human review).
Keywords
Why this is hard to get on your own
Accessing longitudinal survey data on aging and health in rural South Africa, but field-level documentation and license are unclear.
