DDI.AHRI.HDSS.Community.Viral.Load Frank, Tanser Polycarp Kambona Dickman Gareta Nompumelelo Mkwanazi Africa Health Research Institute Nesstar Publisher AHRI.HDSS.CommunityViralLoad Dickman, Gareta Siyabonga Nxumalo Gregory Ording-Jesperson Nompumelelo Mkwanazi Sweetness H Dube Theresa Smit Thobeka Mngomezulu Till, Baernighausen Frank, Tanser Africa Health Research Institute Nesstar Publisher National Institute of Health SAP 316 HIV Viral load; Population viral load; HIV incidence HIV-1, HIV Incidence, Epidemics, Population Surveillance, Rural Population, HIV prevalence, South Africa, HIV Community Viral load, Population-based surveys South Africa AHRI's HDSS Study Area, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Each record is a viral load result from a specimen or multiple records for participants participating in individual surveillance HDSS. The study includes all HIV positive resident individuals aged 15 years and above from KwaZulu Natal South Africa who consented to HIV tests as part of the AHRI population-based HIV testing. Community viral load All individual dried blood spots for HIV-positive individuals from the southern part of the HDSS area. Access to the data requires accurate completion of the online data access application form accessible on the AHRI Data repository(<https://data.ahri.org/>). Data users are required to abide by the data use conditions stipulated on the application for access to the data. Failure to do so may result in their data access privileges being revoked by the Data Custodian. In order to recognise the effort and intellectual contributions of AHRI investigators in producing and curating the data, users of AHRI data must acknowledge the source of the data and abide by the terms and conditions under which the data is accessed and must cite the dataset in publication using the citation provided as part of this documentation. All analytical datasets published on the AHRI Data Repository are assigned digital object identifier (DOIs) and the DOIs can be found on the Data Repository under Study Description tab - Access policy. AHRI data users are required to always cite the dataset using the relevant DOI. CVL 01-01 AHRI.PIP.CommunityViralLoad Analytical Dataset V2.2024.V1.NSDstat 2675 12 Nesstar 200801 Unique Internal Id of Individual 2675 0 72 275950 97033.175 72890.99 Gender 2675 0 1 Male 516 2 Female 2159 DateOfBirth 2675 1936-06-22 2008-08-12 Date of Visit 2675 2023-06-23 2025-05-21 DSRound 2675 0 Location ID at time of visit 2663 12 21 355616 29776.104 67118.73 HDSS area 2672 3 1 South 2672 2 North 0 Sysmiss 3 HIV Sample Id 2675 0 1162769 1217164 1186059.976 16209.793 HIVResult 2663 12 1 Positive 2663 Sysmiss 12 WeekBlock 2660 0 Viral Load Result 1154 1521 1550 8203080 52582.978 315524.307 VL Result Status 1521 1154 1 Valid result 0 2 Below detectable limit 1521 3 Invalid result 0 4 Insufficient for testing 0 5 Specimen not found 0 6 Excluded from testing due to insufficient funding or field error 0 7 Other 0 Sysmiss 1154