List of works - Kobus Herbst

A training manual for event history data management using Health and Demographic Surveillance System data

scientific article

Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites

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Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

scientific article

Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

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Cohort Profile: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey

scientific article published on 12 November 2007

Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural South Africa

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Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

scientific article

Continued very high prevalence of HIV infection in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based longitudinal study

scientific article published in July 2007

Data Resource Profile: Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network).

scientific article

Data cleaning: detecting, diagnosing, and editing data abnormalities

scientific article

Deep learning of HIV field-based rapid tests

scientific article published on 17 June 2021

Developing a Data Dashboard Framework for Population Health Surveillance: Widening Access to Clinical Trial Findings

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Do gifts increase consent to home-based HIV testing? A difference-in-differences study in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published on 10 December 2016

Effect of HIV infection on pregnancy-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: secondary analyses of pooled community-based data from the network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

scientific article

From HIV infection to therapeutic response: a population-based longitudinal HIV cascade-of-care study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites.

scientific article

Healthy or unhealthy migrants? Identifying internal migration effects on mortality in Africa using health and demographic surveillance systems of the INDEPTH network

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

High HIV incidence and low uptake of HIV prevention services: The context of risk for young male adults prior to DREAMS in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

High HIV incidence in a community with high HIV prevalence in rural South Africa: findings from a prospective population-based study

scientific article published in January 2008

How have ART treatment programmes changed the patterns of excess mortality in people living with HIV? Estimates from four countries in East and Southern Africa

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Impact of social distancing regulations and epidemic risk perception on social contact and SARS-CoV-2 transmission potential in rural South Africa: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Improving the validity of mathematical models for HIV elimination by incorporating empirical estimates of progression through the HIV treatment cascade

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Innovations in health and demographic surveillance systems to establish the causal impacts of HIV policies

scientific article

InterVA-4 as a public health tool for measuring HIV/AIDS mortality: a validation study from five African countries

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Levels and determinants of migration in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Linkage to primary care after home-based blood pressure screening in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based cohort study

List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation.

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: Evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

scientific article

Mass HIV Treatment and Sex Disparities in Life Expectancy: Demographic Surveillance in Rural South Africa

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Modelling and understanding primary health care accessibility and utilization in rural South Africa: an exploration using a geographical information system

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites

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Mortality in women of reproductive age in rural South Africa

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Mortality trends in the era of antiretroviral therapy: evidence from the Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

scientific article

Population and antenatal-based HIV prevalence estimates in a high contracepting female population in rural South Africa

scientific article

Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia: Evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

scientific article

Prenatal development in rural South Africa: relationship between birth weight and access to fathers and grandparents

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Preventing unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission: effects of the HIV treatment cascade on contraceptive use and choice in rural KwaZulu-Natal

scientific article

Protective behaviours and secondary harms from non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa: a multisite prospective longitudinal study

scientific article published on 15 November 2020

Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Refining the criteria for stalled fertility declines: an application to rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1990-2005

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Socio-Demographic Determinants of Condom Use Among Sexually Active Young Adults in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Structural barriers to antiretroviral treatment: a study using population-based CD4 cell count and linked antiretroviral treatment programme data

scientific article published in The Lancet

The INDEPTH Data Repository: An International Resource for Longitudinal Population and Health Data From Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

scientific article

The INDEPTH standard population for low- and middle-income countries, 2013

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The MONARCH intervention to enhance the quality of antenatal and postnatal primary health services in rural South Africa: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA): Data on mortality, by HIV status and stage on the HIV care continuum, among the general population in seven longitudinal studies between 1989 and 2014

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The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening

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The effect of antiretroviral therapy provision on all-cause, AIDS and non-AIDS mortality at the population level--a comparative analysis of data from four settings in Southern and East Africa

scientific article published in August 2012

The impact of adult mortality on household dissolution and migration in rural South Africa

scientific article published on July 2004

The impact of continuous quality improvement on coverage of antenatal HIV care tests in rural South Africa: Results of a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled implementation trial

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Universal test and treat and the HIV epidemic in rural South Africa: a phase 4, open-label, community cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Updates to the spectrum model to estimate key HIV indicators for adults and children

scientific article

Using age-specific mortality of HIV infected persons to predict anti-retroviral treatment need: a comparative analysis of data from five African population-based cohort studies

scientific article

Who died of what in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cause of death analysis using InterVA-4

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List of works by Kobus Herbst

A training manual for event history data management using Health and Demographic Surveillance System data

Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites

Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

Cohort Profile: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey

Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural South Africa

Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

Continued very high prevalence of HIV infection in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based longitudinal study

Data Resource Profile: Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network).

Data cleaning: detecting, diagnosing, and editing data abnormalities

Deep learning of HIV field-based rapid tests

Developing a Data Dashboard Framework for Population Health Surveillance: Widening Access to Clinical Trial Findings

Do gifts increase consent to home-based HIV testing? A difference-in-differences study in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Effect of HIV infection on pregnancy-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: secondary analyses of pooled community-based data from the network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

From HIV infection to therapeutic response: a population-based longitudinal HIV cascade-of-care study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites.

Healthy or unhealthy migrants? Identifying internal migration effects on mortality in Africa using health and demographic surveillance systems of the INDEPTH network

High HIV incidence and low uptake of HIV prevention services: The context of risk for young male adults prior to DREAMS in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

High HIV incidence in a community with high HIV prevalence in rural South Africa: findings from a prospective population-based study

How have ART treatment programmes changed the patterns of excess mortality in people living with HIV? Estimates from four countries in East and Southern Africa

Impact of social distancing regulations and epidemic risk perception on social contact and SARS-CoV-2 transmission potential in rural South Africa: analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys

Improving the validity of mathematical models for HIV elimination by incorporating empirical estimates of progression through the HIV treatment cascade

Innovations in health and demographic surveillance systems to establish the causal impacts of HIV policies

InterVA-4 as a public health tool for measuring HIV/AIDS mortality: a validation study from five African countries

Levels and determinants of migration in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Linkage to primary care after home-based blood pressure screening in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a population-based cohort study

List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation.

Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: Evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

Mass HIV Treatment and Sex Disparities in Life Expectancy: Demographic Surveillance in Rural South Africa

Modelling and understanding primary health care accessibility and utilization in rural South Africa: an exploration using a geographical information system

Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites

Mortality in women of reproductive age in rural South Africa

Mortality trends in the era of antiretroviral therapy: evidence from the Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

Population and antenatal-based HIV prevalence estimates in a high contracepting female population in rural South Africa

Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia: Evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites

Prenatal development in rural South Africa: relationship between birth weight and access to fathers and grandparents

Preventing unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission: effects of the HIV treatment cascade on contraceptive use and choice in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Protective behaviours and secondary harms from non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa: a multisite prospective longitudinal study

Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

Refining the criteria for stalled fertility declines: an application to rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1990-2005

Socio-Demographic Determinants of Condom Use Among Sexually Active Young Adults in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Structural barriers to antiretroviral treatment: a study using population-based CD4 cell count and linked antiretroviral treatment programme data

The INDEPTH Data Repository: An International Resource for Longitudinal Population and Health Data From Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

The INDEPTH standard population for low- and middle-income countries, 2013

The MONARCH intervention to enhance the quality of antenatal and postnatal primary health services in rural South Africa: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA): Data on mortality, by HIV status and stage on the HIV care continuum, among the general population in seven longitudinal studies between 1989 and 2014

The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening

The effect of antiretroviral therapy provision on all-cause, AIDS and non-AIDS mortality at the population level--a comparative analysis of data from four settings in Southern and East Africa

The impact of adult mortality on household dissolution and migration in rural South Africa

The impact of continuous quality improvement on coverage of antenatal HIV care tests in rural South Africa: Results of a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled implementation trial

Universal test and treat and the HIV epidemic in rural South Africa: a phase 4, open-label, community cluster randomised trial

Updates to the spectrum model to estimate key HIV indicators for adults and children

Using age-specific mortality of HIV infected persons to predict anti-retroviral treatment need: a comparative analysis of data from five African population-based cohort studies

Who died of what in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cause of death analysis using InterVA-4