Aim
To evaluate the contributions of the member health research centres of the INDEPTH Network which operate health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) field sites to research efforts on the epidemiology and impacts of HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries, via a review of peer-reviewed published papers on HIV/AIDS that use the HDSS framework.
Methods
Publication titles were sent to INDEPTH by member centres. These were uploaded onto the Zotero research tool from different databases (most from PubMed). We searched for publications using the keyword “HIV” and the publication date. The 540 relevant papers were all published in peer-reviewed English language journals between 1999 and 2012. 71 papers were finally selected which met the key criterion for inclusion: papers must deal with the spread and impact of HIV.