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Home page  About CSIS Programs HIV/AIDS Task Force Working Committee on Gender
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Working Committee on Gender
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CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS
Working Committee on Gender
The CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS Working Committee on Gender is chaired by Janet Fleischman, CSIS Senior Associate. In the coming year, the long-term outcomes (goals) of the committee on gender will be to raise policy attention and develop U.S. policy options to integrate U.S. efforts to combat HIV/AIDS with sexual and reproductive health services (SRH), as an essential component of PEPFAR. Its short-term outcomes (objectives) are the following:
Identify promising programs that have integrated SRH and HIV services for women and girls in affected countries Develop benchmarks for strategic integration of SRH and HIV services to be included in U.S.-funded programs Support integration as a strategic goal and incorporate into Washington debates the perspectives of champions from countries acutely affected Focus on adolescent girls as an acutely vulnerable group, and develop pragmatic policy recommendations to mitigate risks to youth
The work outlined above will culminate in a series of events from June through September 2006. In June 2006, in the run up to the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the CSIS Task Force will issue a series of reports and host a major conference on the achievements of PEPFAR to date and the most urgent challenges that lie ahead. The reports will address the critical question of sustainability, and the integration and strengthening of reproductive health services within PEPFAR's strategy will serve not only the goal of sustainability, but also the equally important goal of addressing the acute vulnerabilities of women and children.
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