Thank you very much, Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for coming to this first hour of our meeting.
The fact is that we're talking right now about the comprehensiveness of the whole sexual and reproductive health and rights spectrum. I want to suggest that you've just touched on one aspect. As adolescents talk about sexual and reproductive health, they're not talking only about contraception. They're also talking about information with regard to sexually transmitted diseases.
We know that in some countries young girls are married off to much older men, maybe because of poverty reasons, maybe because of cultural reasons. Many of these young girls do not necessarily have the autonomy or the say in whether or not they're protected from sexually transmitted diseases. We know that in some countries, with the taboo of HIV, the taboo of any kind of sexually transmitted disease, that girl may not have the opportunity to have autonomy, to have decision-making powers.
What are you guys doing to help that situation change?