In 2002 and 2003, CIET conducted a survey of gender violence and HIV knowledge, attitudes and practices among households and schools in eight southern African countries, including Swaziland, where the survey covered some 2,000 adults and 11,00 school going youth.

CIET repeated the survey in 2007, now covering 10 countries, again including Swaziland (about 2,000 adults and 11,000 school going youth). A summary of the 2002 and 2007 findings in Swaziland is available. Several published papers cover aspects of the survey findings in Swaziland and the region.

Cockcroft A, Andersson N, Ho-Foster A, Marokoane N, Mziyako B. What happened to multiple sexual partnerships in Swaziland? Analysis of five linked national surveys between 2002 and 2008. AIDS Care 2010; 22(8) : 955-960 (doi: 10.1080/09540121.2010.482123)

Mitchell S, Cockcroft A, Lamothe G, Andersson N. Equity in HIV testing: evidence from a cross-sectional study in ten Southern African countries. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010; 10: 23 (doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-10-23)

Andersson N, Paredes-Solis S, Milne D, Omer K, Marokoane N, Laetsang D, Cockcroft A. Prevalence and risk factors for forced or coerced sex among school-going youth: national cross-sectional studies in ten southern African countries in 2003 and 2007. BMJ Open 2012; 2: e000754. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000754

Assessment of an HIV prevention campaign to reduce multiple sexual partners, 2005-06

Having multiple sexual partners is associated with the spread of HIV infection. Swaziland’s National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA), with support from USAID organised a major Behaviour Change Campaign (BCC) whose primary intended outcome was a reduction in the number of partners with whom BCC recipients engaged in sexual activity. A second intended outcome was to delay the age out-of-school youth begin to engage in sexual activity.

In May 2005, at the request of USAID and with support from MEASURE Evaluation, CIET undertook an assessment of this initiative. A baseline household-level measurement and a series of gender-stratified focus group discussions with 20-49 year olds were completed by the end of 2005. Field teams returned to communities in mid-2006 for a further survey to assess changes in the level and pattern of concurrent partnership attitudes, subjective norms and self-reported practices.

One outcome of this assessment was an article published in 2010:

Cockcroft A, Andersson N, Ho-Foster A, Marokoane N, Mziyako B. What happened to multiple sexual partnerships in Swaziland? Analysis of five linked national surveys between 2002 and 2008. AIDS Care 2010; 22(8) : 955-960 (doi: 10.1080/09540121.2010.482123)