Table 1

Participant eligibility criteria

Job roleEligibility criteria
Policymakers (5 per country)
 National policymakers (3)

  • Senior officials

  • Portfolio includes HIV prevention

 Local policymakers (2)*

  • Working in local authorities outside the capital city

  • One local authority is at the forefront of HIV prevention

  • Portfolio includes HIV prevention

Frontline healthcare workers (5 per country)†
 Community health worker (1)

  • Involved in HIV prevention

 Healthcare professionals working in a reproductive health clinic (1)

  • Doctor or registered nurse

  • Involved in HIV prevention

 Healthcare professionals working in an HIV clinic (2)

  • At least one doctor

  • Involved in HIV prevention

 HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) counsellor

  • Lay counsellor, trained counsellor or registered nurse who is a counsellor

NGOs (3 per country)
 Staff of supranational NGO (1)

  • Senior staff

  • Involved in HIV prevention

 Staff of NGOs who work with vulnerable populations (2)

  • Senior staff

  • National or regional influence

  • One is supportive of HIV prevention

  • ↵* In Peru, we only interviewed national policymakers due to the centralised nature of its HIV policy-making process.

  • ↵† Working in public, non-profit or private healthcare facilities.