Notice: Notice of Intent To Establish the Global AIDS Coordinator's 
Expert Panel on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Federal Register: October 6, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 194)          
                  Page 58292

Agency:  DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6374]

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 309 of the United States Global Leadership 
Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 
2008, (``the Act''), Public Law 110-293, this is a notice of intent to 
establish the Global AIDS Coordinator's Expert Panel on Prevention of 
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.
    Purpose: The objectives and scope of activities of the Expert Panel 
are to provide an objective review of activities to prevent mother-to-
child transmission of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen 
that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)), and to provide 
a report and recommendations to the Global AIDS Coordinator and to the 
appropriate congressional committees for scale-up of prevention of 
Mother-to-Child transmission prevention services.
    Membership: The Panel shall consist of not more than fifteen 
members appointed by the Global AIDS Coordinator. Members of the Panel 
shall be drawn from governmental and private sector organizations, in 
accordance with the requirements under section 309 of the Act. All 
meetings of this Panel will be announced ahead of time by notice 
published in the Federal Register.
    Further information regarding this Panel may be obtained from 
Rebecca Hooper, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department 
of State, Washington, DC 20520, (202) 663-2440.

     Dated: September 29, 2008.
Thomas Walsh,
Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Acting Department of State.
 [FR Doc. E8-23564 Filed 10-3-08; 8:45 am]

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