Preventing AIDS in Women Starts with Counting Girls

Jan. 22, 2007
2- 3:30 PM
Global Health Council
1111 19th Street, NW Suite 1120
Washington, DC

The feminization of AIDS does not start at age 18 or even 15. The vulnerability of women starts when they are very young; as children and as females they are often outside the range of available health services. Girls are mistakenly perceived to be out of danger from HIV until a certain age, often ignored and largely invisible. As international attention to the vulnerability of young women aged 15-24 accelerates, girls of all ages need to be counted. Please join us to hear from experts with on-the-ground research and program experience who will address the vulnerability to and prevention of HIV infection among girls.

Speakers Include:

• Hazviperi Betty Makoni, Executive Director, Girl Child Network, Zimbabwe
• Judith Bruce, Senior Associate, Population Council
• Nomi Fuchs-Montgomery, Office of the Global Aids Coordinator, U.S. Government

Moderator: Sara Friedman, Managing Editor, Global AIDSLink, Global Health Council

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The Globlal Health Council Policy Series is funded in part through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and with unrestricted educational support from the Abbott Fund.