Table 1.

Domains and Abbreviated Sample Items From the Focus Group Moderator’s and the In-Depth Interview Guides

General health

What kinds of things do you think about when you think about being healthy?

What are your health priorities?

Where do you go for health care?

Sexual health

When you hear of, or think about HIV and AIDS, what do you think about?

What worries about HIV do you have?

What about sexually transmitted diseases? What do you know about them?

How can someone protect himself from these types of illnesses?

Besides using condoms, what do men like yourself do to protect themselves?

What do you do to protect yourself?

Why do some people take risks and others do not?

How does alcohol or other drugs affect sexual risk?

How does religion affect sexual risk?

How does culture affect risk?

You know we are over 30 years into the HIV epidemic, but gay and bisexual men, MSM, and transgender persons continue to be most affected; how would you explain that?

Intervention

What would you do if you were in charge of HIV prevention programming

Probes: Locally? Nationally?

What would you do to keep gay and bisexual men, MSM, and transgender persons safe?

I want you to be creative; what could we do… what should we be doing?

If you wanted to be tested for HIV, where would you go?

What do you think it would be like?

How can gay and bisexual men, MSM, and transgender persons be reached?

Where should we go to reach at-risk men in the community?

Conclusions

What else would you like to share today?