Abstracts are requested from behavioral and clinical scientist, public policy analysts, government officials, academicians and community-service providers, to present current findings and formulate future research directions on HIV/AIDS and associated co-factors and co-morbidities in the African immigrant and refugee communities in the United States.

This track will bring together epidemiologists, researchers and U.S. African immigrant/refugee communities to discuss solutions to disparities in data collection and research among Africans in the Diaspora. OMHRC's African Immigrant Project will collaborate with AHADI, National Institute of Health (NIH), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS (NASTAD), National Minority Aids Education and Training Center (NMAETC), researchers and research institutions, state health departments, providers, epidemiologists and African community leaders.

The outcomes of this track will include:

• Standardizing tools for health departments to use in data collection, which will address the data gap for the African community and
• Documenting research on African immigrants and HIV, and creating a research portal for this population.