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WAYS TO IMPROVE URBAN HEALTH
Understand hiv risk behaviors Stepping Up Surveillance to Fight AIDS
A crew of interviewers takes to the streets of Baltimore on the trail of a tenacious disease.
To help understand an ever-changing epidemic, Bloomberg School researchers designed the Behavioral Surveillance Research Study, or BESURE, a multi-year, 25-city study that probes HIV risk behaviors among three populations: injection drug users, homosexual men, and heterosexual men and women living in areas of high-HIV prevalence. The aim is to get the best data possible on how the disease spreads in the community so that prevention programs can be targeted for maximum effectiveness. “We are scientists, not policymakers,” says Baltimore BESURE’s principal investigator, Frangiscos Sifakis, PhD ’02, MPH, “but it would be disingenuous to say that we don’t hope that getting a firm grasp on what behaviors put people at risk will eventually drive public policy.”
