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Mzantsi Wakho 2014-2018

South Africa, 2014 - 2018
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Reference ID
zaf-cssr-mw-2014-2018-v1
Producer(s)
Professor Elona Toska, Professor Lucie Cluver
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Dec 04, 2025
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-cssr-mw-2014-2018-v1
    Title
    Mzantsi Wakho 2014-2018
    Abbreviation or Acronym
    MW 2014-2018
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Adolescent Health Survey
    Abstract
    This dataset comes from Mzantsi Wakho — a longitudinal, mixed-methods community study of adolescents living with HIV in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, a region marked by structural vulnerability. The study aims to identify risk and resilience factors that influence antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence; access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services; and other HIV-care outcomes among HIV-positive adolescents. Through linked quantitative and qualitative components, the project engages HIV-positive youths, their caregivers, healthcare providers, and social-service actors to better understand barriers and facilitators to effective HIV care and SRH service uptake. Data were collected over three survey waves (Wave 1: 2014–2015; Wave 2: 2016–2017; Wave 3: 2017–2018), combining self-reported questionnaires, clinic record abstraction, and facility-level service profiling — allowing analysis of temporal trends in resilience, treatment adherence, and service utilization. However, the data shared here relates to the self-reported questionnaires only.This study contains data from 1 563 adolescents (1 046 living with HIV at baseline).
    Kind of Data
    Longitudinal Survey
    Unit of Analysis
    Individuals

    Version

    Version Description
    Version 1: Edited, anonymised data for shared under a CC-BY-NC attribution, non-commercial use license
    Version Date
    2025

    Scope

    Notes

    The data includes information about socio-demographics, health service access, and potential risk and resilience-promoting factors for ART adherence and SRH service uptake.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The data was collected only in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
    Geographic Unit
    The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is District Municipality
    Universe
    The survey covered all youth aged 10-19 years at baseline (born between 1995-01-01 - 2004-12-31)

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Professor Elona Toska Centre for Social Science Research, UCT
    Professor Lucie Cluver Oxford University
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    Claude Leon Foundation
    International AIDS Society
    South African National Department of Social Development
    Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa
    UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents (Accelerate) Hub
    European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
    John Fell Fund
    UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Office (UNICEF-ESARO)
    UNFPA South Africa
    Philip Leverhulme Trust
    Regional Inter-Agency Task Team for Children Affected by AIDS - Eastern and Southern Africa (RIATT-ESA)
    Oxford University Clarendon-Green Templeton College Scholarship
    Oak Foundation
    Nuffield Foundation
    Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
    Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
    UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
    Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.
    University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA
    UK aid programme managed by Mott MacDonald

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure
    Information on sampling for the study can be found in the Research Protocol document uploaded with the data.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires
    Data was collected with structured questionnaires which are available with the data files.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2014 2015 Wave 1
    2015 2016 Wave 2
    2017 2018 Wave 3
    Data Collection Mode
    • Face-to-Face and Computer Assisted Personal and Telephone Interview
    Supervision
    Ethics approval for the study data collection was obtained from the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) Research Ethics Committee at the University of Cape Town, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Inter-divisional Research Ethics Committee (IDREC) of the University of Oxford.
    Data Collection Notes
    Data collection involved a participant self-report questionnaire that was completed with support from an interviewer to accommodate potentially low literacy levels.

    access_policy

    Access conditions
    Access under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC (Attribution, Non-Commercial use only) License
    Citation requirements
    Mzansi Wakho. 2025. Mzantsi Wakho Cohort Survey 2014-2018 [dataset]. Version 1. Place: Mzansi Wakho [producer], 2025. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/tzc0-sm18

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2025-12-11

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 1
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