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GCWA: The GCWA commends the ICW Global for its leadership and joins its call to Namibian authorities to uphold the SRHR of women in all their diversity

The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS commends the International Community of Women Living with HIV for its leadership and joins its call to Namibian authorities to uphold the sexual and reproductive rights of women in all their diversity, and to put an end to forced or coerced sterilization of women living with HIV Since 2008, lawsuits against the government of Namibia have been filed for sterilizing women living with HIV, without their consent.

Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The Unfinished Cairo Agenda: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health for All

The international community faces a historic opportunity. Nearly 20 years ago, in 1994, 179 nations committed to protect the reproductive health and rights of women and girls at the landmark UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo.

Malawi / women's health: Joyce Banda speaks out for women's health

Positive and Pregnant: How Dare You?

Positive and Pregnant: How Dare You?

IPAS HIV, Unwanted pregnancy and abortion

IPAS HIV, Unwanted pregnancy and abortion

Uganda / SRH: To Keep the Baby or Not - the HIV-Positive Woman's Dilemma

Kampala — IT was really painful for Anita to come to terms with the fact that she was HIV-positive. "At 23, fresh from university, my life was just beginning," she says regrettably. "At first I thought of going on an infection spreading spree, but I changed my mind. "It is not worth it. Recklessness will kill you faster because you may acquire other strains or opportunistic infections in the process," she remembers the counsellor's words. "I decided to build a wall against any possible relationship with a man," she discloses.  But five years down the road, many things changed for Anita.