Component
Rapid Assessment on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of USAID-ATEP Lead Clients on HIV/AIDS Prevention
Final Report
October 2010
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Gardachew Tiruneh, Lead consultant
Yehiunie Lakew, Statistician
Arega Gera, Tenaw Bawoke, Zelalem Fisseha and Dessalegne Takele, Assistant Researchers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The consultants would like to acknowledge the staffs of USAID-ATEP at the head office level, mainly for Health Sector Unit Staffs for the pivotal role they played all along the assessment process in terms of providing managerial and technical support and guidance whenever needed, facilitation to access the target population. The consulting team would also like to expresses special appreciation to USAID-ATEP Health Unit regional office staffs that have been closely supporting the study team by creating conducive environment as it progressed through the field data collection level of the assessment.
The consultants would also like to appreciate the collaboration of the key informants, focus group discussion participants, and individual respondents whose cooperation was vital in yielding the necessary information at individual and organizational levels without which it would have not been possible to have this report in its final version.
Consultants
Acronyms
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ART Anti-Retroviral Therapy
ATEP Agribusiness and Trade Expansion Program
BCC Behavior Change Communication
BSS Behavioral Surveillance Survey
CBO Community-Based Organization
EDHS Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey
FBO Faith-Based Organization
FGD Focus Group Discussion
GoE Government of Ethiopia
HAPCO HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office
HBC Home-Based Care
HIV Human
References: 1. AIR University (1996), Sampling and Surveying Hand Book, Guideline for Planning, Organizing, and Conducting Surveys 2 3. Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (2001), Workplace HIV/AIDS Policy-Guideline 4 5. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, MoH (2007), Single point HIV Prevalence Estimate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 6 7. United Nations (2005), Designing Household Survey Samples: Practical Guideline ANNEX I: PROFILE OF THE ASSESSED LEAD CLIENTS/COMPANY