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Donovan previously served as a Senior Advisor in the office of the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy for [[AIDS ]] in Africa and is a 20-year veteran of international development, women's rights and [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]].<ref name="The Salem Award: Paula Donovan">[http://www.salemaward.org/2005_rec.asp The Salem Award: Paula Donovan]</ref> In the early '90s, she worked at [[UNICEF]] and ran the global advocacy campaign for breastfeeding. Later, she became chief aide to UNICEF's deputy executive director, and spent four years in Kenya as East and Southern Africa's Regional [[AIDS ]] advisor for UNICEF.<ref name="Paula Donovan">[http://www.fairfield.edu/ar_fadpauladonovan.html Fairfield University: Paula Donovan]</ref>

|Text=She [Paula Donovan] realized that male circumcision was a good preventative way to slow the spread of [[AIDS]]. So she took that analysis further. She suggested to the male leadership in Nairobi, that UNICEF propose that <span style="background:#d7f5ff">circumcision accompany the regular process of immunization of infants</span>... Paula was easily 10 years ahead of her time, because <span style="background:#d7f5ff">that's exactly what's being discussed in several countries now</span>... and what did the UNICEF hierarchy do at the time? They grabbed their genitals in protective embrace and laughed it off like only male sexists can laugh things off. ...the UN took more than a decade to see male circumcision for the inspired preventative technology that it is.

[[AIDS-Free World ]] is an international advocacy organization with a small staff that works virtually from a dozen locations in the US and Canada, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.<ref name="about afw">{{REFweb

}}</ref> Co-Directors Paula Donovan and [[Stephen H. Lewis]] founded [[AIDS-Free World ]] in 2007.<ref name="about afw"/><ref name=Lewis2010/>