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1995:
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A conversation about pregnancy and AIDS testing
with Theresa McGovern, Gretchen Buchenholz and Jim Dwyer on May 24, 1995
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with Theresa McGovern, Gretchen Buchenholz and Jim Dwyer on May 24, 1995
Theresa McGovern is an American author and administrator. She founded the HIV Law Project in 1989 where she served as its executive director until 1999. She also successfully litigated numerous cases against the federal, state and local governments.
As a member of the National Task Force on the Development of HIV/AIDS Drugs, McGovern authored the 2001 federal regulation authorizing the FDA to halt any clinical trial for a life threatening disease that excludes women. In 1999, she was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship and an appointment at the Mailman School. In 2001, she was named director of the Women?s Health and Human Rights Advocacy Project. She has published extensively and testified numerous times before Congress and other policymaking entities.
Source- Mailman School http://www.mailmanschool.org/msphfacdir/profile.asp?uni=tm457
