Maeve McKean is a lawyer working on issues of women's rights. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, jointly earning a law degree from the Law Center and a Master's Degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow supported by the Ford Foundation. She works on issues of human rights, women's reproductive health and HIV/AIDS at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and the International Community of Women with HIV and AIDS (ICW). She is a board member at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Maeve can be emailed at maevemckean@gmail.com.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS recently launched an action plan that targets the AIDS pandemic where it is most devastating: among women.
As governments and international aid groups work to meet the basic needs of the people of Haiti, work must be done to prevent the acceleration of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Haitian women.
