| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on behavioral science in HIV prevention. The systematic process used to carry out the formative research phase for the AIDS Community Demonstration Projects (ACDP) is described. The ADCP sought to provide community-level HIV prevention interventions to historically inaccessible groups at high HIV infection risk. The formative research process progressed through a number of distinct stages, including defining the populations at high HIV risk, collecting information about these populations from individuals who were outside but who had contact with the target groups, interviewing individuals with access to the target groups and carrying out observations at the sites where the high-risk groups congregated, conducting interviews with members of the target groups, and systematically integrating information throughout the process. Valuable information about the target groups in each demonstration project site was obtained using this standardized systematic process.
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