Janet Fleischman is a senior associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, where she focuses on women’s global health issues, including HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. She has also worked as a consultant for UNAIDS, nongovernmental organizations, and private foundations. From 2002 to 2008, she chaired the gender committee of the CSIS HIV/AIDS Task Force, a bipartisan effort aimed at strengthening U.S. policy on HIV/AIDS. From 1983 to 2003, she worked for Human Rights Watch as a researcher on Eastern Europe and Africa and, ultimately, as the organization’s Washington director for Africa. Fleischman has conducted numerous fact-finding missions to Africa, India, and Eastern Europe and has written and edited many reports relating to gender and HIV/AIDS, U.S. policy, and human rights. Her articles have appeared in publications such as theWashington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune,Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Times, Global Post, and AllAfrica.com.