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vii Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the support of key institutions and individuals who made important contributions to the preparation of this volume. The initial meeting that provided a point of departure for this book was held at Columbia University in April 2004, with support provided by the Ford Foundation through its grant for the project Sexuality, Culture, and Society (Grant #1020– 148103; Principal Investigator Richard G. Parker, PhD), based in the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Health and the Department of Sociomedical Sciences of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. At Columbia University, we especially want to thank Mayra Pabon for her help in organizing that meeting, and Raul Angeles for his assistance with the initial preparation of the text for this volume. Finalization of the text took place at the University of Michigan, where we want to thank Danya Keene and Lisa Lapeyrouse in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, the School of Public Health, for their assistance in meticulously editing and reformatting the chapters. Special thanks to Michael Ames at Vanderbilt University Press for his enthusiasm and support for this book. ...

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