Bandim Health Project
Bandim Health Project, University of Southern Denmark
Africa's oldest and one of its largest rural health and demographic surveillance systems, established in 1989 and monitoring over 200,000 individuals across urban and rural Guinea-Bissau through biannual household surveys. The system tracks vital events, vaccination status, and health interventions across multiple disease research areas.
Category
Open dataset
Access
Credentialed
Region
Africa — Guinea-Bissau
Coverage
100,000+ rural residents; 100,000+ urban residents (nationally representative)
Size
200,000+
License / terms
Data sharing agreement
Data types
vital events, vaccination, demographics, household surveys