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The PSI/Angola HIV prevention program is supported financially by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID) and BP. The inter-personal communication (IPC) program that promotes HIV prevention among female commercial sex workers (CSWs) in Luanda Province is implemented by national NGOs with the support of the Government of Angola Ministry of Health and National Institute for the Fight Against AIDS (INLS).

The objectives of the 2005 study were: (1) to measure changes in behavior and behavioral determinants relating to condom use since the last study in 2002; (2) to gain insight into the current opportunity, ability and motivation factors and population characteristics that drive or inhibit condom use among this target group; (3) to measure exposure to PSI interventions and correlation between exposure and change in behavioral and other indicators since 2002.