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The authors thank the Center for Black Equity and local Black Pride organizations for partnering with us to implement POWER, the community-based organizations who performed onsite HIV testing on the study’s behalf, the thousands of study participants who volunteered their time to contribute to this research, and members of the POWER Study Team who made data collection possible. The local Black Pride organizations are as follows: D.C. Black Pride, Detroit’s Hotter than July, Houston Splash, In the Life Atlanta, Memphis Black Pride, and Philadelphia Black Pride. The community-based organizations that performed onsite HIV testing are as follows: Atlanta: AID Atlanta, AIDS Health Care Foundation, NAESM; Detroit: Community Health Awareness Group, Horizons Project, Unified; Houston: Avenue 360, Houston AIDS Foundation, Positive Efforts; Memphis: Friends for Life; Philadelphia: Access Matters, Philadelphia FIGHT; Washington, D.C.: Us Helping Us. The members of POWER study team are as follows: Center for Black Equity: Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr., Michael S. Hinson, Jr.; Columbia University: Patrick A. Wilson; University of Connecticut: Lisa A. Eaton; Rutgers University: Henry Fisher-Raymond; University of Pittsburgh: Leigh A. Bukowski, Cristian J. Chandler, Derrick D. Matthews, Steven P. Meanley, Jordan M. Sang, and Ronald D. Stall. We are grateful to Luis Archila for his translation of our abstract into Spanish.
Author MRF has received an honorarium and travel expenses reimbursement for serving as a consultant to Gilead Sciences, Inc. in June 2018 for the purposes of providing scientific input for a grant mechanism in development concentrating on HIV and aging. Authors MRF and RDS received travel expenses reimbursements from Gilead Sciences, Inc. for the purposes of speaking at AIDSImpact conference in July 2015, specifically for a symposium on syndemics and the HIV prevention and care continuum. Authors JMS, LAB, DDM, LAE, CJC, JEE, KH, and HRF have no conflicts of interest to declare.
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health (5R01NR013865).