Dear Centre Leaders,
Greetings from the INDEPTH Secretariat. We hope you have had a good week.
We have the following items for your attention:
1. Morbidity Module
 One of our member-centres, Kintampo HDSS, is planning to introduce a morbidity module in their (2015) July to December round of data collection. This module will collect information on Infectious and Chronic morbidities, malaria, TB, hospitalisation, injury, disabilities, alcohol and tobacco use, among others.
In case your centre may have collected similar data before; or are even currently doing so (and/or are contemplating doing so), this message is addressed to you.
We are seeking your assistance to share with the Kintampo team (and any other colleagues in the Network) the tools/questionnaires you have used so that they can be adapted. This will allow for some level of comparison. They will also welcome any suggestions you may offer as to how to go about this. Kintampo will eventually share the tool they develop out of this.
The Secretariat will eventually facilitate the development of a morbidity surveillance tool which will have a MINIMUM CORE and potential for additional modules. The minimum core will allow for multi-centre comparisons and the additional modules will allow for centre-specific adjustments/interests.
Please forward the tools and/or suggestions to Dr. Martin Bangha (martin.bangha@indepth-network.org) for sharing with Kintampo HDSS.
2. Abstract submission for INDEPTH Scientific Conference – 7 days to go
 The abstract submission for the INDEPTH Scientific Conference is still open and will end on 15th May, 2015. We encourage all centres to submit abstracts for the ISC.
Kindly visit (Abstract Submission). You can read more on the ISC at (ISC 2015)
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