AFRO-NETS> New publication on HIV/AIDS prevention in southern Africa

[David Hock <DHock@fhi.org>]

New publication on HIV/AIDS prevention in southern Africa
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Corridors of Hope in Southern Africa: HIV Prevention Needs and Oppor-
tunities in Four Border Towns

This report, produced by Family Health International's (FHI) Impact 
project and available on-line at:

http://www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/corrhope/corrsum.html 
<http://www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/corrhope/corrsum.html>, summarizes 
the findings of an assessment conducted for the United States Agency 
for International Development's "Corridors of Hope" Initiative, a re-
gional HIV/AIDS prevention project focusing on key sites along the 
Durban-Lusaka highway in southern Africa. Conducted in November 1999 
in Messina, South Africa, Chirundu, Zambia, and Beitbridge and Chi-
rundu in Zimbabwe, the assessment sought to develop, test, refine and 
package a standard participatory methodology for evaluating HIV risk, 
identifying prevention opportunities and designing grounded, coordi-
nated regional prevention initiatives.

The rapid assessment tool kit which produced this and other assess-
ments for IMPACT in Africa is also available on-line in PDF format at 
http://www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/impactpdfs/rhapassessmentguide.pdf 
http://www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/impactpdfs/rhapassessmentguide.pdf

This 64-page, plain-language "how-to" guide for conducting rapid as-
sessments in communities with highly mobile populations is divided 
into five chapters: 
A mapping guide; 
A site inventory; 
An ethnographic guide; 
A focus group guide; 
and Rapid behavioural surveys. 

Each chapter provides examples of the tools in the guide and/or sam-
ple data collection forms. The tools are easily extracted and 
downloadable, though there is a copyright to ensure proper attribu-
tion if these tools are used by agencies other than the authors.

David Hock 
Senior Information Projects 
Coordinator Family Health International 
mailto:dhock@fhi.org 

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