As Director of Public Policy at Advocates for Youth, Janine Kossen primarily promotes international policies on HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, and foreign assistance reform. Before coming to Advocates, she was the Director of Federal Policy at ZERO TO THREE where she managed the organization’s federal early childhood policy agenda. Prior to that, Janine served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania where she worked with regional and local health professionals, adolescent girls, and community-based youth organizations on programs related to HIV/AIDS, family planning, female genital cutting, and life skills education. Janine holds a Juris Doctorate in international human rights law from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters of Public Health, with concentrations in health and human rights and maternal and child health, from Johns Hopkins University.
Just in time for World AIDS Day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a Blueprint for Achieving an AIDS-Free Generation. Overall, the Blueprint is surprisingly strong, especially in light of the fact that over the past few years, the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) has done a lackluster job on young people and focused its rhetoric almost exclusively on biomedical approaches.
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Republicans voted eleven separate times this week to block funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). That’s right, eleven separate times in the span of just three hours.
For the first time in eight long years, the Senate held a hearing on ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, a treaty which conservatives believe would end the world as we know it.
