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Failing Women and Children

The world's policymakers have been cooking the statistical books on HIV services to mothers and babies. AIDS-Free World's co-directors Stephen Lewis and Paula Donovan wrote the preface to Failing Women, Failing Children: HIV, Vertical Transmission and Women's Health, the International Treatment Preparedness Campaign's report, "Missing the Target 7," based on research in six countries. The report was launched in May 2009 and received instant attention.

Imperial College, London: Excerpt from a speech by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, to the World Health Editors Network charging that “the UN was stubborn and it was sloppy” when entrusted with the job of measuring the growth of the AIDS pandemic.
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SPEAKING UP
A regular column reacting to HIV news and developments. From AIDS-Free World’s Director of Communications Sohaila Abdulali:
THE DEBATES
Every approach to HIV/AIDS has pros and cons, but most are thrashed out behind closed doors. In The Debates, introduced here with a few initial topics, we’ll move those discussions into the public domain.
- A UN agency for women
- Questioning the statistics

THE AGENDA
AIDS-Free World takes on the most critical issues affecting populations from Africa to the Caribbean, Asia and beyond. The Agenda items listed so far offer a sampling of topics we will probe in this section.
UN WOMEN'S AGENCY
People want and deserve to be kept informed about the newly approved UN women's agency, now under construction. Follow AIDS-Free World's written exchanges with the UN Deputy Secretary-General, and check this spot for news about the global search for the woman who will lead the new agency, and other developments as they unfold.