This 2001 assessment is the second in a series conducted for the USAID Southern Africa Regional Program on HIV/AIDS. Through these assessments, USAID and prevention program managers learn more about the risk environments of border crossings and trade towns along the roads connecting countries in southern Africa. The findings are used to help prioritize sites according to risk environment and importance in sub-regional HIV transmission.

The first assessment was conducted in 1999 along the Durban-Lusaka corridor, which transects South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The results were summarized in Corridors of Hope in Southern Africa, a monograph published by IMPACT. The second assessment took place in mid-2000 and focused on the Lesotho-South Africa nexus. It is the subject of the first half of this report. A third assessment, conducted in late 2000 to explore the routes connecting
Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa, is also discussed in this report.

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