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Health Affairs, 28, no. 6 (2009): 1677-1687 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.1677 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Fighting HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV/AIDS In Washington, D.C.

Alan E. Greenberg, Shannon L. Hader, Henry Masur, A. Toni Young, Jennifer Skillicorn and Carl W. Dieffenbach

Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States and is a major center for public health and health policy expertise. Yet the District of Columbia has an HIV prevalence rate among adults of 3 percent, on par with some sub-Saharan African countries. To date, the local public health response has not controlled the epidemic. The ways in which that response has been galvanized in recent years—through collaboration among the capital’s public health agencies, community and faith organizations, and research institutions—may be instructive to other jurisdictions combating HIV/AIDS.

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