Acknowledgements
Suggested Citation
Gay, J., Hardee, K., Croce-Galis, M., Kowalski, S., Gutari, C., Wingfield, C., Rovin, K., Berzins, K. 2010. What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions. New York: Open Society Institute. www.whatworksforwomen.org
Authors
Jill Gay, MA, public health consultant
Karen Hardee, PhD, Vice President for Research, Population Action International
Melanie Croce-Galis, RN, MPH, Artemis Global Consulting
Shannon Kowalski, MPA, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations
Chanelle Gutari, MPH candidate, The George Washington University
Claire Wingfield, MPH, TB/HIV Project Coordinator, Treatment Action Group
Kimberly Rovin, Ph.D. student, Michigan State University
Kristine Berzin, Research Analyst, Population Action International
Expert Review and Support
Compiling a research review of this magnitude would not be possible without the expert input and support of a wide group of people. The authors are extremely grateful to the following reviewers, including those who participated in a review meeting hosted by the Open Society Institute in Cape Town, South Africa on February 17-19, 2010.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Ph.D.
Associate Scientific Director
Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
South Africa
Avni Amin, Ph.D.
Technical Officer
Department of Gender, Women and Health
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
Jayne Arnott
Consultant
Cape Town, South Africa
Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH
Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights
Baltimore, MD, USA
A. David Brandling-Bennett, MD, DTPH
Senior Program Officer
Infectious Diseases, Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA, USA
J. Winchester Brown, Ph.D.
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Karen Brudney, MD
Director, Infectious Disease/AIDS Clinic and Director, Tuberculosis Service
Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY, USA
Ward Cates, MD, MPH
President of Research
Family Health International
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Farley Cleghorn, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President and
Chief Technical Officer
The Futures Group
Washington, DC, USA
Myron Cohen, MD
J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC USA
Nazneen Damji, MS
Programme Manager
Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
New York, NY, USA
Barbara T. Dente, MPA
Program Associate, Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
New York, NY, USA
Anne Eckman, Ph.D.
Independent Consultant
Health Policy Initiatives
Washington, DC, USA
Jose Esparza, MD, Ph.D.
Senior Adviser on HIV Vaccines
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA, USA
Cynthia Eyakuze, MPH
Director, Public Health Watch
Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
New York, NY USA
Tamar Ezer, JD, LLM
Program Officer
Law and Health Initiative
Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
New York, NY USA
Lindiwe Farlane, MA
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer EngenderHealth
Johannesburg, South Africa
Nathan Ford, Ph.D.
Head of Medical Unit
Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Cape Town, South Africa
Susana Fried, Ph.D.
Senior Gender Advisor
HIV Group, Bureau of Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
New York, NY, USA
Adrienne Germain, MA
President
International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
New York, NY, USA
Elena Ghanotakis, MPH
Technical Officer, Global Technical Policy
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Washington, DC, USA
Françoise Girard, MA, LLB
Director, Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
New York, NY, USA
Ali Groves, MHS
Research Coordinator
Gillings School of Global Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ed Handelsman, MD
NIAID Program Officer
Division of AIDS
NIAID/NIH/DHHS
Bethesda, MD, USA
Nina Hasen, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Advisor, HIV Prevention
Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC)
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC, USA
Erin E. Howe, MPH
Program Officer, Public Health Watch
Public Health Program
Open Society Institute
New York, NY, USA
Jose Jeronimo, MD
Director, START-UP Project
Reproductive Health
PATH
Seattle, WA, USA
Nduku Kilonzo, Ph.D.
Director
Liverpool VCT Care & Treatment
Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
ETR Associates
Scotts Valley, CA, USA
Shyam Kottilil, MD, Ph.D.
Staff Clinician
NIH/NIAID/LIR
Bethesda, MD, USA
Vanessa Ludwig
Director
The Triangle Project
Cape Town, South Africa
Siddhartha Mahanty, MD, MPH
Staff Physician
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
NIH/NIAID
Bethesda, MD, USA
Anna Miller, MD
Senior Technical Advisor
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Washington, DC, USA
Aprajita Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Gender & Development Specialist
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Asia Regional Office
Defence Colony, New Delhi, India
Françoise Ndayishimiye, MD
Senior Gender Adviser
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Geneva, Switzerland
Florence Nyangara, Ph.D.
Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist
Futures Group
Washington, DC, USA
Christian Pitter, MD
Director of Global Technical Policy
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Washington, DC, USA
Judith Polsky
Programme Adviser
UNAIDS
Geneva, Switzerland
Mark Robson, Ph.D., MPH, MS, ATS
Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Naomi Rutenberg, Ph.D.
Vice President, HIV and AIDS Program
Population Council
New York, NY, USA
Amitrajit Saha, DGO, MD (PSM)
Associate Director SRH
PATH
New Delhi, India
Caroline Sande, MA
Regional Adviser
Regional Support Team
Eastern and Southern Africa
UNAIDS
South Africa
Stuart Z. Shapiro, MD, Ph.D.
NIAID Program Officer
Division of AIDS
NIAID/NIH/DHHS
Bethesda, MD, USA
Carol Shepherd, Sc.D., MS
The Futures Group
Washington, DC, USA
Jacqueline Sherris, Ph.D.
Vice President, Global Programs
PATH
Seattle, WA, USA
Larry Slutsker, MD, MPH
Chief, Malaria Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA
Marion Stevens, RN, RM, B Soc Sci (Hons), MM (P&DM)
Project Manager
Women and HIV/AIDS Gauge, Health Systems Trust (HST)
Cape Town, South Africa
Laura Subramanian, MS
Program Associate
EngenderHealth
New York, USA
Todd Summers
Senior Program Officer for Global Health
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Washington, DC, USA
Tracy Swan
Hepatitis/HIV Project Director
Treatment Action Group
New York, NY, USA
Vicci Tallis, Ph.D.
Programme Manager, HIV and AIDS
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
(OSISA)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Feiko ter Kuile, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Tropical Epidemiology
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Alejandra Trossero, MS
Senior HIV Officer
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
London, England, United Kingdom
Additional Support
In addition to the authors, a number of people have been involved in compiling the evidence in this document. Carolina Hall, Program Assistant at Population Reference Bureau, contributed to writing the chapters on preventing perinatal transmission and sexual and reproductive health.
The following people also contributed to research for this compendium of evidence:
• Martha Wood, MPH, student in Bachelor's of Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia
• Meher Rehman, Atlas Corps Fellow, Population Action International
• Alana Hairston, MS, Technical Officer, Global Technical Policy Unit, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
• Betsy Kidder, MD and Ph.D. student, The George Washington University
• Kathryn Fleming, Senior Project Specialist, Health and Education, American Institutes for Research
• Tasha Prados, student, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Holly Greb, Program Coordinator, Population Action International