Introduction:

Good morning/good afternoon and welcome. Thank you for agreeing to participate in this second group discussion.

It’s nice to see you again… My name is… and my colleague sitting next to me is … We will be leading this discussion together. We have two people who will be taking notes…

We work for KEMRI Center for Global Research and PIRE.

I want to thank you for taking the time to meet with us today.

Let me take this opportunity to remind you that the purpose of this study is to learn how to involve adolescents in HIV research in a respectful way. Today, we are going to start with some follow up questions that arose from our first meeting. We are then going to ask you some new questions about compensation for research participation.

Like we did before, we will be taking notes as well as audio recording to make sure we do not miss anything. We will use your feedback to make improvements in HIV research with adolescents.

Reports will be prepared to be shared with others and your names will not appear on these reports. You can also refuse to answer any questions that make you feel uneasy.

Before we start, let me remind of our ground rules that we had when we first met.

Ground rules:

• Please remember there is no right or wrong answer to these questions. We just want to hear your answers in your own words from your own perspective.

• We ask that you all feel free to participate and share your opinion.

• We also ask that you give each other a chance to talk. That means only one person talks at a time. Please do not to interrupt others in the group when they are talking.

• We also ask that you all respect the opinions of others in the group.

• People say things in a different way even though they may be talking about the same thing. Even though you think someone else has already said something that is in line with your own experiences or thoughts, we would like to hear what you have to say.

• Please be assured that any information you give us is confidential and only authorized research staff will have access to anything you share with us.

• We ask each of you to keep the group participants and the information they share confidential.

• We also ask that you turn your phones off or put them on vibrate. If you need to take a call, please do not take it right outside the door or windows of this room so that you don’t disturb the discussion. Also please make sure you speak up and we want to caution you that the recorders pick noise so please be careful not to knock on the table. We will also remind you about this during the meeting.

Do you have any questions before we begin?

Now we are going to turn on the audio recorder and begin the group discussion.