Table 4.

Overview of data collected for HIV STAR-Malawi and HIV STAR-Zambia impact evaluations

Data type	Data collected
	Pre-intervention	During intervention period	12 months after intervention begins
Household survey	• Ever tested • Tested within past 12 months • Current ART use • Self-reported circumcision status		• Ever tested • Tested within past 12 months • Current ART use • Self-reported circumcision status
Clinic data extraction	ART initiations from each study clinic by sex, age, self-testing status
CBDA M&E data		• Number of kits distributed • Sex and age of persons receiving kits • Barcode on test kit to link with returned kit
Client-returned kit		• Used test kit • Self-completed questionnaire with test result, client sex, age • Barcode linking to CBDA M&E data
Qualitative data	• Situational analysis and community mapping (ZM, MW) • Cognitive interviewing on IFUs (ZM, MW) • Formative research on attitudes and preferences toward self-testing (ZM)	• Process evaluation (ZM)
Economics data	• DCEs to understand preferences for testing and linkage • Costs of health facility based HIV testing at baseline		• Costs of HIV testing, including self-test distribution models