- Method relies on willing participation of respondents who are open about their HIV+ status – no proxies
- Method relies on skilled, empathetic interviewers, who have the trust of the respondents
- Ethical considerations – confidentiality; paying respondents for their time and contribution; expectations, etc
- How replicable is this to situations where there is greater stigma, eg rural SA and Kenya?
- If one only works with people who are wiling to participate, what are the impacts on sampling and representivity
- How replicable is this method at scale – what techniques would help for larger scale utilization – standardization, capturing, qualitative data analysis software, etc?
- Corroboration of information – obtaining views and stories of other players, eg in-laws, institutional actors.
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