AIDSQuest: The HIV/AIDS Survey Library
Survey Summaries

The Futures Group International, POLICY Project:
AIDS Program Effort Index (API)  

Overview
The AIDS Program Effort Index (API) is a joint effort of UNAIDS, USAID, and the POLICY Project to measure the amount of effort put into national HIV/AIDS programs by domestic organizations and individuals and by international organizations. The index examines program effort through a score that provides measures of the key high-level inputs independent of program outputs. For example, program effort includes items such as the proportion of the population that has access to affordable condoms but does not include output measures such as the proportion of acts protected by condom use.

Methodology/validity
The version in AIDSQuest was field-tested in Cambodia, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Senegal, and Zambia. It scores countries on 30 items that are grouped into four components: (1) policies and stage-setting activities, (2) service and service-related activities, (3) record keeping and evaluation, and (4) availability of family planning methods. The questionnaire was developed in 1999 and was reviewed by a number of interested individuals at UNAIDS, WHO, USAID, the MEASURE: Evaluation Project, and the POLICY Project and posted on the Internet for review by all other interested individuals. It does not measure the inputs (context) of the epidemic and the response nor does it measure the outcomes.

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This page updated 21 August 2006

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