Status Report 2010

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INTRODUCTION
This report summarizes key Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP) research and service activities between 2007 and 2010. It provides an overview of the main scientific findings in that period, as well as planned new research directions.
The Rakai Health Sciences Program
The Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP) was established in 1987 as a collaboration between researchers at Makerere and Columbia Universities, and the Uganda Virus Research Institute. Subsequently, the collaboration extended to Johns Hopkins University, and in 2002 to the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that year, the RHSP was designated by the DIR as one of only three International Centers for Excellence in Research (ICER).