The project explored connections between civil war-induced migration to urban areas in Angola and HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, perceptions, and risks. The project’s fieldwork was conducted in June-July 2004 in two suburban municipalities of Luanda,Angola’s capital: Samba, a more urbanized municipality with a relatively small presence of forced migrants, and Viana, a less urbanized municipality with a relative high share of the forced migrant population. The data collection included a survey and qualitative interviews. The sample was drawn from each borough (bairro) of each municipality (8 boroughs in Viana and 9 boroughs in Samba) separately. The target sample share of each borough was established in proportion to its estimated population size. In each borough, households to be included were selected using a predetermined walk algorithm that minimized any bias in household selection. In a one-half of the selected households women (age 15 to 49) were selected; in the other half men (age 15 to 59) were selected (the sex assignment of households was random). The resulting survey sample consisted of 1082 individuals (51% men and 49% women).

The survey questionnaire included the following modules: migration history; general individual and household background sociodemographic background; marriage and sexual life; reproduction; HIV/AIDS; social networks; community and social capital; and gender attitudes. Qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted only with forced migrants. In total, 64 in-depth interviews were carried out, most of them at the site with high presence of forced migrants (Viana). The interviews explored HIV/AIDS-related views and behavior in greater detail.

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