1. TECHNICAL AREA: Family and Community Health -Immunizations -Child and adolescent health -Maternal health -HIV/STI -Nutrition Second Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health (TAG GEH) - November 10, 2009 Paulo Lyra

2. Immunization Ensure through surveillance that gender is not a factor affecting immunization activities. Therefore polio elimination, and immunization activities against measles, and neonatal tetanus need to equally benefit both sexes. Also ensure that new vaccines are effective for males and females.

3. Pan American Alliance for Nutrition and Development for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals Conceptual Premises To replace a one sector approach with a multi-sector approach centered on determinants To build an framework for coordinating joint efforts at the local, regional, national, transnational and regional levels To identify integrated interventions using a life-course approach using evidenced-based information To identify social and geo-demographic groups and scenarios to implement interventions

4. Addressing the Social Determinants Through an Integrated Approach to Improve Nutrition and Promote Development Physical and social environmentWater and sanitationEducation and access to informationFood security Access and quality of health care, including maternal health and family planning Employment, working conditions and household incomeHuman rights, gender and intercultural approach Empowerment, social participation and exercise of the fundamental freedoms

5. Adolescent Health THE 49 th DIRECTING, COUNCIL approved the PLAN OF ACTION ON ADOLESCENT AND YOUTH HEALTH Activities for both member states and PAHO at interagency level (i.e. Follow up and support the regional Observatory on Gender Equality), regional level (i.e. Reach consensus on a standardized list of indicators that allows for the identification of gaps and disparities in health status by (…) sex), and national level (i.e. Review and update the legal framework for the protection and rights of adolescent and youth, using gender and ethnicity approaches

6. HIV/STI Global Fund working group. Developed gender/ethnicity checklist for reviewing proposals. Member of training group. Gender sensitive indicators for WHO Universal Access reportGender analyses of HIV TV announcementsGender training for HIV focal pointsTranslate WHO module on Gender and Heath Mainstreaming: Gender/Ethnicity Checklist for Biannual workplan, presented and applied. HIV and Gender based violence studies in 4 CA countries. With InterAmerican Commission of Women (CIM/OAS) develop care model for HIV and Gender for ELS Plan to incorporate SOGI dimension in training materials and fact sheets

7. HIV/STI Launch of the Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean Strategy to increase access to health by men who have sex with men Transgender award// Transgender documentary

8. Family and Community Health -Immunizations -Child and adolescent health -Maternal health -HIV/STI -Nutrition - Gender was a key consideration in the biennial workplan of the Area -Concerted effort to disaggregate data by sex and ethnicity