To improve women's health and empowerment and reduce women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

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   Change 1: Inserts “, including the pursuit of sexual relations with adolescent girls” before the semicolon

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   Inserted: , including the pursuit of sexual relations with adolescent girls

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   On page 23, line 24, insert before the semicolon the following: “, including the pursuit of sexual relations with adolescent girls”.

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   Change 2: Rewrites page 24, lines 2–4

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   Inserted: developed to address the access of women and adolescent girls to employment opportunities, income, education and training, productive resources, and microfinance programs;

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   On page 24, strike lines 2 through 4, and insert the following: “developed to address the access of women and adolescent girls to employment opportunities, income, education and training, productive resources, and microfinance programs;”.

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   Change 3: Rewrites page 27, lines 19–23

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   Inserted: (W) An analysis of strategies to reduce deaths from cervical cancer caused by high risk strains of human papillomavirus in women over 30 living in sub-Saharan Africa.

   Inserted: (X) A description of a comprehensive 5-year global AIDS plan that shall be developed by the President to address issue effecting, and promote specific strategies to overcome, the extreme vulnerability of adolescent girls to HIV infection, including self esteem, access to education, safe employment and livelihood opportunities, pressures to marry at an early age and bear children, and norms that do not allow for safe and supportive family life and marriages.

   Inserted: (Y) A description of the programs, and the number of women and girls reached through these programs--

   Inserted: (i) to increase women's access to currently available prevention technologies and the steps taken to increase the availability of such technologies;

   Inserted: (ii) that provide prevention education and training for women and girls;

   Inserted: (iii) addressing violence and coercion; and

   Inserted: (iv) increasing access to treatment.

   Inserted: (Z) A description of the progress made on developing a safe, effective, and user-friendly microbicide.

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   On page 27, strike lines 19 through 23, and insert the following:

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   Change 4: Strikes “and”

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   Struck: and

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   On page 51, line 8, strike “and”.

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   Change 5: Replaces the period on page 51, line 12 with new text

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   …[struck: .]

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   On page 51, line 12, strike the period and insert a semicolon.

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   Change 6: Inserts new text on page 51, between lines 12 and 13

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   Inserted: (I) assistance for programs to dramatically increase women's access to currently available female-controlled prevention technologies and to microbicides when these become available, and for the training and skills needed to use these methods effectively;

   Inserted: (J) assistance for research to develop safe, effective, and usable microbicides;

   Inserted: (K) assistance for programs to provide comprehensive education for women and girls, including health education that emphasizes skills building on negotiation and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and other related reproductive health risks and strategies that emphasize the delay of sexual debut;

   Inserted: (L) assistance for strategies to prevent and address gender-based violence and sexual coercion of women and minors;

   Inserted: (M) assistance to reduce the vulnerability of HIV/AIDS for women, young people, and children who are refugees or internally displaced persons; and

   Inserted: (N) assistance for community-based strategies to reduce the stigma faced by women affected by HIV and AIDS.

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   On page 51, between lines 12 and 13, insert the following:

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   Change 7: Replaces “; and” with new text

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   Struck: ; and

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   On page 52, line 3, strike “; and” and insert a semicolon.

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   Change 8: Replaces the period on page 52, line 10 with new text

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   …[struck: .]

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   On page 52, line 10, strike the period and insert a semicolon.

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   Change 9: Inserts new text on page 52, between lines 10 and 11

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   Inserted: (D) assistance for programs that promote equitable access to treatment and care for all women, by--

   Inserted: (i) reducing economic and social barriers faced disproportionately by women;

   Inserted: (ii) directly increase women's access to affordable drugs; and

   Inserted: (iii) providing adequate pre- and post-natal care to pregnant women and mothers infected with HIV or living with AIDS to prevent an increase in the number of AIDS orphans; and

   Inserted: (E) assistance to increase resources for households headed by females caring for AIDS orphans.

   Original wording

   On page 52, between lines 10 and 11, insert the following:

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    Change 10: Inserts new text on page 81, line 24

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    Inserted: (9) At the United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001, the United States also committed itself to the specific goals with respect to reducing HIV prevalence among youth, as specified in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/ AIDS adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at the Special Session.

    Original wording

    On page 81, after line 24, add the following:

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