At the strategic level, addressing human rights barriers to health and gender inequality is one of the four pillars of our strategy. This is really important, because we understand this is one of the key drivers of the three diseases. If we don't tackle human rights barriers, we won't end the epidemic, so this is extremely important for us.
It is part of the way we review the funding requests we receive from the different governments, and it is part of the national dialogue we have within the country coordination mechanisms where all the stakeholders in particular countries are involved, and where it's so important to have the communities' voices and civil society's voices heard as well. This is part of the ground management process, in a way, where we very much encourage and push for those human rights barriers to be addressed.
To be more specific, I want to highlight in that area an initiative we have that is called “breaking down barriers”. It develops baseline assessments of those human rights-related barriers to access to health. We've done those assessments in 20 countries. Based on those assessments, we have started having dialogues with the authorities and in different circles about how to go about it. We have been positively surprised to see the response from the authorities in many of those cases, because when they are faced with the data and they understand the implications in terms of public health, that drives the conversation.
We have allocated an extra $45 million U.S. in matching funds to scale up evidence-based programming, based on those findings and recommendations.
As I mentioned before under prevention, that takes us into new territories such as training for law enforcement officials and health care professionals, as well as legal literacy or know-your-rights programs.