TANZANIA (2011): MEASURING ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY OF CONDOMS IN HIGH-RISK AREAS IN TANZANIA

This is the sixth round of MAP High Risk Areas, which is a methodology that allows programmers to make an assessment of product availability and accessibility using pre-defined criteria for coverage, quality of coverage and access. MAP High Risk area 2011 study had the following objectives: (1) monitor the availability of each of PSI/Tanzania's social marketed condoms (Salama, Salama Studs, Salama 3 Bomba and Familia) , as well as of other non PSI condoms in high risk areas, (2) compare market penetration and access to condoms between the baseline and follow up,, and (3) monitor market penetration of Salama, Salama Studs and Salama 3 Bomba condoms in high-risk areas (hotzones) and a measure of access to these products among high-risk groups. For condoms, a market penetration indicator has been employed in additional specific locations: i.e. the proportion of high-risk meeting places (hotspots) in a high-risk area (hot zone), in which the condoms are sold, and meet minimum standards. A simple audit sheet was used to collect market penetration of condoms information in the selected high risk areas. The audit sheet was developed based on the information needs for calculating market penetration and access. Using GPS units, all hot-spots in the selected hotzones were geo-referenced.