ALPHA Network (Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
ALPHA brings together ten population-based HIV surveillance sites across eastern and southern Africa (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe), collecting individual-level data on HIV infection, demographics, behavior, socio-economic status, and clinical outcomes since the late 1980s. Anonymized microdata are available through DataFirst under license for research on HIV incidence, mortality, and the effects of HIV on population dynamics.
Category
Research database
Access
Credentialed
Region
Africa
Coverage
Eastern and Southern Africa (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
Size
10 surveillance sites, populations 20,000–220,000 per site
License / terms
Research Data License (through DataFirst)
Data types
HIV/AIDS, demographic surveillance, epidemiology, mortality, individual-level data