Investigators: Paul Kowal, PI, Somnath Chatterji, Co-I, Arvind Mathur, Co-I, Nirmala Naidoo, Co-I, Joel Negin, Co-I, Sunit Mathur, Co-I.
Description:
In both Uganda and South Africa, a baseline set of face-to-face interviews were conducted in 2009/10 in almost 1000 respondents from health and demographic surveillance system fieldsites to look at health and well-being in older persons infected with and affected by HIV. The study samples were made up of persons aged 50 years and older who resided within the respective surveillance populations. The study randomly selected 100 older persons in each of five distinct groups: 1. Older persons who were HIV-infected and on ART for a year or longer; 2. Older persons who were HIV-infected and not yet on ART or on ART for three or less months; 3. Older persons living with an adult child who was HIV-infected and on ART; 4. Older persons had an adult child who died of HIV-related death; and 5. Older person was HIV uninfected and had no adult child who was HIV-infected.
The fifth group was the comparison group, but could only be established in the Ugandan study as in South Africa older HIV uninfected people not affected by HIV in the family were rare. Data from both sites were collected using structured questionnaires adapted from survey instruments of the WHO’s Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) (Kowal et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2012.) covering four main parts: demographic and household information; health and wellbeing assessment; care-giving and care-receiving patterns; and anthropometric measurements. Data from Wave 1 is in the public domain and available through writing to: [email protected]. Wave 2 is being implemented in both fieldsites starting in the first quarter of 2013.
Coverage: South Africa, Uganda.
Sponsor: World Health Organization.