Survey Objectives

The development (long-term) objective of the 2003/4 Botswana HIV/AIDS Impact Survey (BAISII) is to provide information on the population behavioural pattern and the HIV/AIDS prevalence rates to be used for guiding the formulation and development of national and district HIV/AIDS and other health-related policies and programmes.

Specifically, the survey shall seek to:

Generate a nationally representative, population-based estimates of HIV/AIDS prevalence amongst the population 18 months old to 64 years plus.

Identify and document those factors (i. e. behaviour, knowledge, attitudes, cultural) that are associated with the HIV epidemic prevention, infection and impact mitigation amongst the population age 10-64 years.

Establish core benchmarks against which successive progress on the impact of the National Response to HIV/AIDS can be measured.