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[[Image:Rakai_Site.jpg|right|thumb|Rakai Project Site]]
[[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ronald Gray ]] & [[Maria Wawer ]] (married) head the project.]]
The [[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
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|title=History of the Rakai Health Sciences Program
|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/about/index.html
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|title=Our People at Johns Hopkins University
|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/our_people/jhu.html
|last=JohnsHopkinsSPH
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|yeardate=2012-01-10
|title=Rakai Project
|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k
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|yeardate=
|title=Rakai Health Sciences Program
|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/
|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
|ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=07m29s JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2010). ''Rakai Project.'' YouTube.]</ref>
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|yeardate=2012-01-10
|title=Rakai Project
|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=08m37s
|last=smugamba
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|yeardate=2006-10-10
|title=Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu.mpg
|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q