Corridors of Hope in Southern Africa: HIV Prevention Needs and Opportunities
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 regional
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 Chirundu 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, coordinated regional prevention
initiatives.

The rapid assessment tool kit which produced this and other assessments 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 assessments
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 behavioral surveys.  Each chapter provides examples of the
tools in the guide and/or sample data collection forms.  The tools are
easily extracted and downloadable, though there is a copyright to ensure
proper attribution if these tools are used by agencies other than the
authors.

David Hock
Senior Information Projects Coordinator
Family Health International
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