Support Bandim Health Project

Bandim Health Project has no core funding or donations. Should you be interested in supporting the Bandim Health Project we would be very grateful. A contribution can be received and administered by University of Southern Denmark. More information can be obtained by email to cbenn@health.sdu.dk. You can support our research projects and research capacity building in […]

Bandim Health Project history

The Bandim Health Project was established by Danish anthropologist Peter Aaby. He came to the capital Bissau in 1978 to understand the reasons for the high mortality among children in Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau is a former Portuguese colony in West Africa, which was liberated in 1974, after a violent war. After independence in 1974 an extremely […]

About Bandim Health Project

Bandim Health Project is a health and demographic surveillance system site situated in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Bandim Health Project (BHP) follows a population of more than 200,000 individuals in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau. This provides a unique platform for conducting health research. One of the major research areas is to study the real life effects […]

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Bandim Health Project: A health and demographic surveillance system in Guinea-Bissau Bandim Health Project The Bandim Health Project follows a population of more than 200,000 individuals in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau. This provides a unique platform for studying health, survival, and health‑intervention uptake.  Bandim Health Project is a collaboration between the Ministry of Health of […]