Selected questions/topics from interview guide related to primary and secondary AIDS-related stigma

As you know more people are dying everyday, especially the young ones, so what is the cause of this disease that is killing more people?

So what are the health workers and CDF members doing about this AIDS?

What is the community’s view about AIDS?

How do people treat those who are HIV-positive?

How does AIDS affect your house?

Do you sit down with your family members and talk about this disease?

What is your biggest worry about AIDS?

Does AIDS cause conflict in this household?

How do people treat those that are HIV positive?

How do family members treat those who are HIV positive?

Gogo [Grandmother], what are your beliefs about the causes of AIDS?

What are the consequences for those who are HIV positive?

What are the consequences towards the family members?

What is the impact of HIV/AIDS on the community?

What is the community doing to address the issue?

What are the results of negative reaction to the people who are positive?

What are the results of negative reactions towards the family members?

What is the difference between AIDS and Tindzhaka?

What is the attitude of people towards somebody with Tindzhaka, and how is it different from the attitude towards someone with HIV/AIDS.

Have you ever taken care of orphaned kids? Tell me what you were doing to take care of this child? What financial and social resources did you have to take care of the child?

Have you ever taken care of the sick? What did you experience in taking care of the sick?

How does care giving for the sick and grandchildren affect your health?

How is your health affected by what you do on a typical day?

How is your mental health?

How does care giving for the sick and your grandchildren affect your mental health?

How does your mental health affect what you done a typical day?

Do you have people with whom you can trust and talk to?

How difficult was it during the sickness, death funeral and mourning?

How did the mourning, illness and death affect the household financially?

As you know more people are dying everyday, especially the young ones, so what is the cause of this disease that is killing more people?

So what are the health workers and CDF members doing about this AIDS?

What is the community’s view about AIDS? How do people treat those who are HIV-positive?