Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) Legacy Documents
On this page you’ll find earlier versions of the PLACE tools and related content. The 2019 version of the PLACE toolkit is available here: https://www.measureevaluation.org/place
The Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) method is a rapid assessment tool to monitor and improve AIDS prevention program coverage in areas where HIV transmission is most likely to occur.
The PLACE manual's files are available as free downloads. These files provide the entire manual in one Portable Document Format (PDF) file, as well as individual chapters of the instructional portions as individual files. Within each step, you will find references to the additional resources listed under other headings below. PLACE is designed for local program managers who want to know where to target resources to prevent new infections. PLACE systematically identifies gaps in current prevention programs, enhances the local use of the finding to improve program delivery, and monitors program coverage over time using easy-to-understand indicators and coverage maps.
Entire manual with all forms
To view the manual’s individual steps, select from below:
- Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts — Overview of the PLACE Method
- Step 1 — PLACE Strategy
- Step 2 — Identify Venues Where People Meet New Partners
- Step 3 — Venue Verification Interviews
- Step 4 — Describe Venue Patrons
- Step 5 — Use Results to Improve Programs
PLACE Mapping Tool
Microsoft Word Documents
These documents can be copied and modified for local study needs, using Microsoft Word software.
Interviewer Guide
- Interviewer Guide, to be used during training in Steps 2-4; and instructions for revising the guide.
Questionnaires (Forms A through D)
- Community Informant Questionnaire (Form A), for data collection during Step 2
- Venue and Event Report (Form B), for data collection during Step 2
- Venue Verification Form (Form C), for data collection during Step 3
- Questionnaire for Individuals Socializing at Venues (Form D), for data collection during Step 4
Certificates
- Confidentiality Agreement that will be signed in Step 2
- Ethical Principles and Guidelines for Research Involving Human Subjects Completion Certificate that will be signed in Step 2
Fieldwork Forms
- Community Informant Fieldwork summary sheet, to be completed during Step 2
- Venue Verification Fieldwork summary sheet, to be completed during Step 3
- Individual Interview Fieldwork summary sheet, to be completed during Step 4
Report Template
- PLACE report template, to be used during Step 5
PowerPoint Presentations
These presentations can be copied and modified for local study needs, using Microsoft PowerPoint software.
- Steering Committee Meeting Overview, useful in Step 1
- Interviewer Overview of PLACE Assessment useful in Step 2
- Interviewer Training Overview, useful in Step 2
- Interviewer Ethical Training, useful in Step 2
- Data Use: How to Write a PLACE Report, useful in Step 5
- Action Planning Workshop, useful in Step 5
Epi Info Guide and Epi Info Software Files
The software files (displayed in the matrix below) are available as Epi Info Version 6 files designed to help manage and analyze data from three of the PLACE method forms and to enter data into the PLACE report template.
The matrix describes each file’s use, organized by the relevant PLACE form involved.
Epi files
Epi Info software is available free of charge from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. System requirements for the software are described in the introduction to Epi Info Guide. The Epi Info Guide provides instructions for how to use the files.
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PLACE Reports
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Jamaica
Kazakhstan
- PLACE in Central Asia: A Regional Strategy to Focus AIDS Prevention in Almaty and Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2002. (2004)
- Report of PLACE Assessments in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Central Asia 2002 and 2003.
- Report of PLACE Assessments in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, 2002 and 2003.
Kyrgyzstan
- PLACE in Central Asia: A Regional Strategy to Focus AIDS Prevention in Almaty and Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2002.
- Report of PLACE Assessments in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia 2002 and 2003.
Mexico
Russia
- PLACE in Russia: Identifying Gaps in HIV Prevention in Samara, 2005
- PLACE in Russia:Identifying Gaps in HIV Preventionin Saratov-Engels, 2005
- PLACE in Russia: Identifying Gaps in HIV Prevention in St. Petersburg, 2002.
South Africa
- PLACE in South Africa: Evaluation of a Successful Community-Based AIDS Prevention Program, East London, 2000-2003.
- PLACE in South Africa: Monitoring AIDS Prevention in a Township in Cape Town, 1999-2002.
- PLACE in South Africa: Monitoring AIDS Prevention in Two Townships in Port Elizabeth, 2001-2003.
- PLACE: Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts: A Pilot Study of the PLACE Method in a Township in Cape Town, South Africa.
Uganda
- PLACE Assessments in Uganda in 2018
- Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts, Uganda, 2013-2014
- PLACE in Uganda: Monitoring AIDS-Prevention Programs in Kampala, Uganda Using the PLACE Method.
Uzbekistan
- PLACE in Central Asia: A Regional Strategy to Focus AIDS Prevention in Almaty and Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Osh, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2002.
- Report of PLACE Assessments in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, 2002 and 2003.
Zambia
- PLACE in Zambia: Identifying Gaps in HIV Prevention in Mongu, Western Province, 2005
- PLACE in Zambia: Identifying Gaps in HIV Prevention in Kapiri Mposhi, Central Province, 2005
Zimbabwe
Scientific Journal Articles
- Brodish P, Singh K, Rinyuri A, Njeru C, Kingola N, Mureithi P, Sambisa W, Weir S.(2011). Evidence of high-risk sexual behaviors among injection drug users in the Kenya PLACE study.Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 119(1-2):138-141.
- Singh K, Sambisa W, Munyati S, Chandiwana B, Chingon A, Monasch R, Weir S. (2010). Targeting HIV interventions for adolescent girls and young women in Southern Africa: use of the PLACE methodology in Hwange District, Zimbabwe.AIDS Behav. 14:200-208
- Boerma JT, & Weir SS. (2005). Integrating demographic and epidemiologic approaches to research on HIV/AIDS: the proximate-determinants framework. J Infect Dis, 191(Suppl 1):S61-S67.
- Cleland J, Boerma JR, Carael M, & Weir SS. (2004). Monitoring sexual behaviour in general populations: a synthesis of lessons of the past decade. Sex Transm Infect, 80(Suppl II):ii1-ii7.
- Weir S, Tate JE, Zhusupov B, & Boerma JT. (2004). Where the action is: monitoring local trends in sexual behaviour. Sex Transm Infect, 80(Suppl II):ii63-ii68.
- Weir SS, Morroni C, Coetzee N, Spencer J, & Boerma JT. (2002). A pilot study of a rapid assessment method to identify places for AIDS prevention in Cape Town, South Africa. Sex Transm Infect, 78(Suppl I):i106-i113.
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