Day two of field test

The first set of questionnaires returned today. We have received 48 questionnaires back from men living in Khayelitsha.

Today is our second day of field testing, and I can see the incredible benefit we will gain from testing the questionnaire and having it reviewed by experienced researchers.
Our fieldworkers made some comments this morning which are already quite interesting:
“People don’t know about HIV!”
“Actually most men don’t mind speaking about their initiation process.”
“When we approach men to participate they respond by saying we should be educating them, not asking these questions! They want to know more, they want to be educated.”

We will get the second day of field test results in tomorrow and on Friday we are going to have a focused session on finalizing the questionnaire from the field perspective, hopefully our assistance from colleagues at universities will also be consolidated by then.