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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2012 Jul;16(5):1227–1237. doi: 10.1007/s10461-011-0099-4

Table 1.

CM and MVCT operational provision, northern Thailand 2006–2009

Descriptions Round # and dates (dd/mm/yy) of conducting the activities
Conventional CM strategies
Edutainment strategy
Edutainment
and semi
opt-out


1
03/01/06–
02/04/06
2
4/05/06–
5/08/06
3
2/09/06–
8/12/06
4
1/02/07–
6/06/07
5
21/06/07–
31/10/07
6
5/11/07–
4/06/08
7
13/06/08–
25/03/09
# of activities days 48 56 56 67 73 111 163
# of CM clients aged 16 years
 and older
7,513 5,796 7,513 8,306 6,903 10,934 10,042
# of VCT clients 1,107 932 781 1,427 1,705 3,852 7,980
Median age of clients 39 37 36 36 30 35 38
Counselor field hours 4,608 4,541 4,666 7,108 5934 10,067 17,788
#clients/day 23 17 14 21 23 35 49
#clients/100 co-hours 24 20 17 20 29 38 45
# of clients have repeat
 testing after previously
 test with PA-Thai (% of VCT clients)
0 37 (4.0) 56 (7.2) 116 (8.1) 161 (9.4) 461 (11.9) 1611 (20.2)
Number clients (aged ≥ 15 years old) by
CM activities and by 100 h of each activities
Total # session
performed
# clients # client/session Total working
hours
# clients/10
working hours
Activities with MVCT conducted
 concurrently near by
 (mostly edutainment)
499 30,512 61 16,512 18
Group discussion without MVCT
 conducted concurrently
472 18,674 39 4,745 39
Door-to-door out reach 381 7,708 20 1,443 53