When given time to develop, CABs appear to be a good strategy for building partnerships between researchers and communities for collaborative research projects. This approach has the potential to build sustainable capacity to identify and address ethical issues in research as well as community needs.

We assessed risk of transmission among 4,016 HIV-infected patients in primary care, including men who have sex with men (MSM, n=2,109), women (n=1,104) MSM were more likely to use methamphetamines (8% versus 2% and 3% respectively), while MSW (17%) and women (12%, compared to 11% for MSM) were more likely to use cocaine. Clinical settings offer opportunities for preventing HIV transmission, particularly if interventions are tailored to sub-populations of HIV-infected patients.Predicting Transmission Risk 1

HIV prevention counseling is not routine in most clinics, and the low frequency of such services represents missed opportunities for HIV prevention.