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in the laboratory and to issue vouchers for participants to retrieve their test results. Thetraining involved didactic presentations, small group discussions and practical sessions,such as mock interviews and blood draws.Community mobilisation. On August 1, <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>KAIS</strong> was officially launched in conjunctionwith a national television, radio, and print media campaign to educate, sensitise, andmobilise <strong>Kenya</strong>ns about the survey and the importance of broad participation. Mobilisationefforts then shifted to interpersonal communications at the community and village levels toraise awareness of the survey as a major surveillance initiative by the Government of <strong>Kenya</strong>.This also served to prepare communities before survey teams arrived.District statistical officers and enumerators helped to locate sampled clusters and sampledhouseholds. As KNBS staff, these officers and enumerators were knowledgable about censusenumeration systems and had developed a rapport with community and village leadersthrough previous surveys. Teams of trained community mobilisers then visited the villageleaders to discuss the survey and when possible held community meetings to explain thepurpose and process of the survey and to answer questions in a public forum. Mobiliserscommunicated regularly with data collection teams and were able to convey estimated datesof data collection to the sampled households.Fieldwork. Each field team consisted of four interviewers, two laboratory technicians, onesupervisor and one driver. A total of 29 field teams conducted fieldwork over a period offour months from August to December <strong>2007</strong>. Teams were given local languagequestionnaires in addition to instruments in Kiswahili and English to accommodaterespondents who were not conversant in the local languages. Completed questionnaires foreach cluster were packed and delivered to KNBS headquarters in Nairobii through securedcourier services for data processing.After obtaining consent from the head of the household, interviewers administered thehousehold questionnaire to the household heads. This was followed by interviews andblood draws among all eligible and consenting individuals in participating households.Participants received bilingual (English and Kiswahili) brochures on HIV, HSV‐2, syphilis,and tuberculosis, including information on the association between the diseases and thevalue of knowing one’s HIV status.Supervision. Data collection teams were routinely visited by teams of supervisorsrepresenting different <strong>KAIS</strong> collaborating institutions. These supervision teams travelledthroughout the country to meet with field teams, deliver survey supplies, perform qualitychecks on questionnaires, assess mobilisation efforts, and help address challenges to datacollection. Supervision reports were circulated to the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong> TWG members and pendingissues in the field were resolved after discussion.A.3 HUMAN SUBJECTS<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 285

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