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Horizons Program—Expanding Workplace HIV Prevention Activities in a Highly Mobile Population: Construction Workers in Ho Chi Minh City 

Overview
Horizons, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Union, the Ho Chi Minh City Standing AIDS Bureau, the Population Council/Vietnam, and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, with support from USAID and the Ford Foundation, investigated the feasibility, costs, and impact of two workplace HIV-prevention programs for highly mobile construction workers. One program used construction worker peer educators to promote HIV risk reduction and create an environment supportive of these changes by fostering management involvement. Researchers compared it to an existing model that uses visiting health communicators. Other important objectives of the study included exploring the role of the labor union in facilitating and coordinating workplace HIV/AIDS programs, examining strategies to motivate management to support HIV/AIDS workplace programs in relatively low-prevalence environments, and identifying which program can best follow a mobile workforce.

Methodology/validity
The instrument was largely based on a survey created by the UNAIDS & MEASURE Evaluation collaboration formed in an effort to improve the monitoring and evaluation of national AIDS programs. This questionnaire for adults was originally designed for national surveys on HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, and sexual practices, and attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS. Questions on mobility were changed and sections on gender norms and work-related stigma were added. For further information on the survey or the Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation, please see: http://www.measureprogram.org.

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This page updated 21 August 2006

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