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Child Survival Technical Support—Rapid Knowledge,  Practices and Coverage Survey

Overview
The Rapid Knowledge, Practices and Coverage (KPC) Survey for mothers of children under the age of two years was originally designed by the Child Survival Support Program of  Johns Hopkins University to assist private voluntary organizations (PVOs) to assess progress of child survival projects in several intervention areas. Various PVOs expressed a desire to expand the original KPC to include issues such as HIV/STIs, and the CORE Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group and Child Survival Technical Support Project (CSTS) assumed the task of updating the KPC questionnaire. CSTS provides technical support to PVOs by working:

• with them directly;

• with the Child Survival Collaborations and Resource Group (CORE)—a network of more than 35 non-profit organizations; and

• with the Child Survival Grants Program office at USAID.

The revised KPC2000 has 15 freestanding modules, including a module on HIV/STIs. Each module contains interviewer instructions, suggested qualitative and quantitative research questions, and a basic tabulation plan. Skip patterns are not presented in the module, since this will depend on the content and order of the questions selected by each researcher. Questions can be asked of both men and women of reproductive age.

The HIV/STI module includes the following seven categories of questions:

1. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS risk factors and modes of transmission

2. Risk and risk reduction

3. Sexually transmitted diseases

4. HIV screening

5. Stigma

6. Sources of care and support

7. Identifying orphans and foster/adoptive children

Methodology/validity
The CORE M&E Working Group and CSTS solicited input from numerous experts and stakeholders on the KPC2000. A number of PVOs included HIV/STI questions in a field-test of the KPC2000 during 2000. These questions extend far beyond what was covered in the initial version of the HIV module, which was limited primarily to knowledge of risk factors.

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This page updated 21 August 2006

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