A CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy paper looks at how certain global health challenges disproportionately affect women and girls. "Many key global health priorities revolve in fundamental ways around the gender-related barriers that women and girls face in accessing health-related information, services, and resources, all of which increase their vulnerability to ill health. For success and sustainability, the United States should anchor its global health strategy in a firm commitment to address the gender disparities that affect global health outcomes" (Fleischman, 11/09).