GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEUNITED STATES OF AMERICAMEASURESFEDERAL WORKING GROUP ON HIV AIDS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GENDER-RELATED HEALTH DISPARITIES
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Federal Working Group on HIV AIDS Violence Against Women and Gender-Related Health Disparities
Type of Measure
Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Year
2012
Brief Description

President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating the Federal Working Group on HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women, and Gender-Related Health Disparities. The interagency federal working group developed a 56-point action plan, with a focus on women of color, to improve screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV; address violence and trauma among HIV positive women in care; expand HIV and IPV outreach, education, and prevention; and promote increased research around HIV and women/girls.

Source of Information
The Government of the United States of America, National Review on Beijing +20 2014, pg 23
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