Disclosure of Hiv status to sexual partners among people who ...

& Ezzy, 2005). This was relevant for participants who have and have not disclosed their
status to partners who preferred to be interviewed individually.
3.2 Study population
The study population from which participants for the in-depth interviews were recruited
was; the English and Luganda speaking male and female TASO Mulago registered clients
who are 18 years and above, enrolled on the ART Program that was rolled out in 2004
and have a current sexual partner.
The study population from which participants for the focus group discussion were
recruited was drawn from; the clients’ representatives (34) who are peer educators. These
are open about their sero-status ,have been trained to pass over information to their peers
and the public and only those with a current sexual partner and were willing to be
interviewed were considered.
3.3 Sampling and Sample Size
The study employed purposive sampling in order to ‘get information-rich’ male and
female participants from TASO Mulago centre. This is a type of non-probability
sampling approach in which subjects are selected because they are identified as
knowledgeable regarding the subject under investigation (Frankel & Devers, 2000). In
the study the participants were selected because of their knowledge regarding the issue of
disclosure/non disclosure to partners. The researcher establishes certain criteria thought
to be representative of the target population and deliberately selects subjects according to
such criteria (Burns & Groove, 1993). The participants purposefully selected were either
in a discordant or polygamous relationship, or took a test during antenatal clinic, were
married or cohabiting or not living together with partner.
TASO Mulago was selected because the centre is in the urban setting where prevalence
of HIV is high (8.5%) according to the Uganda 2004-2005 sero-behavioural survey
(MoH & ORC Macro, 2006) and the centre was the first TASO centre to roll out ART.
The criteria for selection of participants for the individual interviews:
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