We also conducted in-depth interviews with service providers and other personnel and focus group discussions with clients.
BC participated in the design and coordination of the study, conducted a situational analysis (with SK, AV), coordinated and conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (with ND), and helped draft the manuscript.
We conducted in-depth-interviews and focus-group discussions with women enrolled in the trial as well as women and men from the community.
We then conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with program managers and HSAs, respectively, to gain an understanding of the barriers and facilitating factors for delivering health systems supports for CCM.
A focus group discussion conducted in 2008 with 13 women who admitted to payment for sex in ACASI suggested that this behaviour was indeed common, and gave some women a sense of control over the sex they purchased.
Six discussions were conducted in total – three with GPs and three with CNs.
The majority of the discussions were conducted in English, with the research assistants providing translation as needed.
Twenty-seven focus group discussions were conducted in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda with a total of 208 women either enrolled in the registry or from its source communities.
YYAS sessions are typically conducted in seminar and discussion group formats, with Yalies offering an introduction to university academics, providing training for taking the SAT (the standardized test is often foreign and challenging to international students), and sharing their own personal experiences, offering encouragement to all participants.
The data is obtained from a census conducted in 2009 [27] and from discussion with industry specialists.
