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COVER STORY SUPPLEMENT Project Masiluleke

COVER STORY SUPPLEMENT Project Masiluleke As the global war on HIV/AIDS continues to grow, there have been focused efforts in HIV-transmission prevention work and preventative intervention design and implementation in the developing world. However, domestic needs are also ever present and rising. In published remarks made during the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference held in Atlanta, GA, Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, stated that "while we've made strides in Africa and around the world, our progress here in the US has stalled."Reflective of this stalled progress are recently observed upticks in domestic HIV infection rates, specifically across several demographic (risk) groups. During the conference plenary Dr. Amy Lansky of the CDC stated that overall, gay and bisexual men—commonly referred to as Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)—account for half of the new HIV infections in the US. Furthermore, within the MSM risk group, dramatic transmission rate increases have been observed among young (13-24) MSM and, specifically, young African-American MSM [1], with African-Americans,—disproportionally as a racial/ethnic group (inclusive of some alarming trends amongst African-American women)—accounting for nearly half of all new HIV infections.Further elucidating domestic HIV/AIDS challenges, a March 2009 Washington Post article reported that at least 3 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png interactions Association for Computing Machinery

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Abstract

As the global war on HIV/AIDS continues to grow, there have been focused efforts in HIV-transmission prevention work and preventative intervention design and implementation in the developing world. However, domestic needs are also ever present and rising. In published remarks made during the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference held in Atlanta, GA, Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, stated that "while we've made strides in Africa and around the world, our progress here in the US has stalled."Reflective of this stalled progress are recently observed upticks in domestic HIV infection rates, specifically across several demographic (risk) groups. During the conference plenary Dr. Amy Lansky of the CDC stated that overall, gay and bisexual men—commonly referred to as Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)—account for half of the new HIV infections in the US. Furthermore, within the MSM risk group, dramatic transmission rate increases have been observed among young (13-24) MSM and, specifically, young African-American MSM [1], with African-Americans,—disproportionally as a racial/ethnic group (inclusive of some alarming trends amongst African-American women)—accounting for nearly half of all new HIV infections.Further elucidating domestic HIV/AIDS challenges, a March 2009 Washington Post article reported that at least 3

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