Table 1.

Community Members and Providers’ Knowledge, Awareness of, and Experiences With Molecular HIV Surveillance—Content Areas and Interview Questions

Content Area	Interview Questions
Awareness of and/or experience with MHS and how it might be used for HIV prevention	1. Do you know what molecular HIV surveillance is?  2. [If yes to #1] How much do you know about it? Please share with me what you know.  3. Do you know what HIV cluster detection and response is?  4. [If yes to #3] How much do you know about it? Please share with me what you know.  5. Did you know that the health department would like to start using information collected for molecular HIV surveillance to help with HIV prevention work?
Concerns about MHS and the use of MHS for cluster detection and response	1. How do you feel about the health department using molecular HIV surveillance information in this way?  2. What concerns (if any) regarding potential legal issues do you have?  3. [For PLWH only] Were you contacted for an interview when you were diagnosed with HIV? How was that for you?
Perceived benefits of the use of MHS for cluster detection and response	1. How do you think this type of information might be helpful in supporting HIV prevention efforts?
Information that key informants identified as important for PHSKC to provide to the community in general—and to cluster members and their contacts specifically—about MHS-based interventions when they are implemented	1. What should we tell people in HIV clusters and their partners about how they were identified or why they are being contacted by the health department?  2. What kinds of information should they be provided?  3. If the health department starts doing this, what do you think people in your community [or the community you serve] should know?  4. How could the health department get this information to people who need it?

Note. MHS = molecular HIV surveillance; PHSKC = Public Health–Seattle & King County; PLWH = person living with HIV.