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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"> {{cite web REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | year= | title=History of the Rakai Health Sciences Program | url = http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/about/index.html | title = History of the Rakai Health Sciences Program | 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> {{cite web REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | year= | title=Our People at Johns Hopkins University | url = http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/our_people/jhu.html | title = Our People at Johns Hopkins University | accessdate = 2011-05-02}}</ref> who conduct biased research to look for justifications in rolling out mass circumcision programs around the world.<ref name="rakai-jhsph"> {{cite web REFweb | last=JohnsHopkinsSPH | first= | year=12/1/10 | title=Rakai Project | url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k | title accessdate= Rakai Project | date = 12/1/10 | work = JohnsHopkinsSPH | publisher = Youtube}}</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> {{cite web REFweb | last=Rakai Project | first= | year= | title=Rakai Health Sciences Program | url = http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/ | title = Rakai Health Sciences Program | accessdate = 2011-05-02}}</ref><ref> {{citation REFnews | last=Kong | first = Xiangrong | last coauthors= Kong | contribution url= Longer-term Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Incidence and Risk Behaviors during Post-trial Surveillance in Rakai, Uganda http://www.retroconference.org/2011/Abstracts/41239.htm | title = 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections | place = , Boston, Massachusetts | pages = 36 | date = February 28, 2011 | id publisher= | contributionquote=Longer-url = http://www.retroconference.org/2011/Abstracts/41239.htm term Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Incidence and Risk Behaviors during Post-trial Surveillance in Rakai, Uganda | accessdate = 2011-05-02 | pages = 36}} [http://circleaks.org/images/d/da/Acknowledgements.png Acknowledgements slide] [http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?c=10164&cn=retro&s=20445&&dp=player.jsp&e=13709&mediaType=podiumVideo Video of Presentation with Slides and Audio Download Link]</ref> == History of the Rakai Project ==

==Promoting Circumcision as an HIV Prevention Method== 

 {{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Rakai Project Doctor Promotes Circumcision</small> |quote 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. |source 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.] |align = center |width = 50% |quoted = yes</ref>

At the Rakai clinic, a propaganda music video promoting circumcision plays continuously in the waiting room.<ref>{{REFweb | last=JohnsHopkinsSPH | first= | borderyear=0 align12/1/10 | title="center" styleRakai Project | url="widthhttp: 25%" cellpadding//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t="0"08m37s | accessdate=}}<center/ref><youtuberef>0rtEdNl322Q<{{REFweb | last=smugamba | first= | year=6/10/10 | title=Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu.mpg | url=http://www.youtube>.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q | accessdate=}}</centerref>

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Chorus Lyrics</small> |quote Text= Men should be circumcised |source Author= <small></small> |align Source= center |width = 90% |quoted = yes

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Bridge/Outro Lyrics (female singer)</small> |quote 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! |source = <small></small> |align = center |width Author= 90% |quoted Source= yes

==External Links=={{LINKS}}*[http://www.jhsph.edu/rakai/ Rakai Health Sciences Program] home page at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health.*[http://www.jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University] home page at the John Hopkins University website.