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[[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ronald Gray ]] & [[Maria Wawer ]] (married) head the project.]]

The [[Rakai Project|Rakai Health Sciences Program]] (RHSP) is a program that began in 1987 in Uguanda, Africa to investigate the then-mysterious HIV.<ref name="rakai-history">{{REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | yeardate= | title=History of the Rakai Health Sciences Program | url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/about/index.html | accessdate=2011-05-02}}</ref> The [[Rakai Project|RHSP]] is headed by husband and wife team [[Ronald Gray]] and [[Maria Wawer]] (the Senior Principal Investigators),<ref>{{REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | yeardate= | title=Our People at Johns Hopkins University | url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/our_people/jhu.html | accessdate=2011-05-02

| last=JohnsHopkinsSPH | first= | yeardate=12/1/2012-01-10 | title=Rakai Project | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k | accessdate=}}</ref> The [[Rakai Project|RHSP]] is funded by the [[Johns Hopkins]] Bloomberg School for Public Health, the Uguanda Virus Research Institute, the [[National Institutes of Health]], and the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref>{{REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | yeardate= | title=Rakai Health Sciences Program | url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/ | accessdate=2011-05-02

| last=Kong | first=Xiangrong | coauthors= | url=http://www.retroconference.org/2011/Abstracts/41239.htm | title=18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston, Massachusetts | date=February 2011-02-28, 2011 | publisher= | quote=Longer-term Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Incidence and Risk Behaviors during Post-trial Surveillance in Rakai, Uganda | accessdate=2011-05-02 | pages = 36

== History of the Rakai Project RHSP ==

The [[Rakai Project]] was created in 1987 by a group of scientists from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda who decided to investigate HIV infection in the Rakai district by initiating a small community cohort study. The original senior Principal Investigators of the [[Rakai Project]] were Nelson Sewankambo, David Serwadda, and [[Maria Wawer]].<ref name="rakai-history"/> The [[Rakai Project]] has since changed its name to the [[Rakai Project|Rakai Health Services Program]], and has a current staff of just under 400 principal investigators, multidisciplinary professionals, and support staff.<ref name="rakai-history"/>

== Promoting Circumcision circumcision as an HIV Prevention Method prevention method ==

The [[Rakai Project|RHSP]] promotes mass circumcision as a means to prevent the spread of HIV. A Youtube video uploaded by the [[Johns Hopkins|Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health]] highlights the [[RHSP|RHSP's]] mass circumcision program.<ref name="rakai-jhsph"/>

| Title=Rakai Project Doctor Promotes Circumcision | Text=It's been hard to change policy because it's a whole new paradigm. We've never used surgery to prevent an infectious disease. Policy makers had to take some time to really wrap their minds around it. | Author=[[Ronald Gray]] | Source=Rakai Project| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=07m29s JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2010). ''Rakai Project.'' YouTube.]</ref>

=== Music Video video === 

| last=JohnsHopkinsSPH | first= | yeardate=12/1/2012-01-10 | title=Rakai Project | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=08m37s | accessdate=

| last=smugamba | first= | yeardate=6/2006-10/-10 | title=Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu.mpg | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q | accessdate=

| Title=Chorus Lyrics | Text=Men should be circumcised | Author= | Source=

| Title=Bridge/Outro Lyrics (female singer) | Text=Circumcision has got many benefits. You'll become clean, clean, and cleaner... and when the men are circumcised, it reduces sexual infections in women. Circumcision is SO GOOD. Circumcision is SO SAFE. Men should be circumcised! | Author= | Source=

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