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Global / financing: Donor Mapping on Women and AIDS
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, is pleased to share a new donor mapping on women and AIDS. This has been developed as a tool to facilitate the fundraising efforts of those networks and organizations committed to working on issues of women’s rights, gender equality and HIV. We hope you will find it useful! To access the document, click here: Mapping of donors engaged in women and AIDS.pdf
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria: Call for expressions of interest - GCWA virtual consultation around Global Fund gende
Call for Expressions of Interest - virtual consultation around the review of the GFATM Gender Equality Strategy Deadline: 9th May 2011 The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is a worldwide alliance of civil society groups, networks or women living with HIV, women’s organizations, AIDS service organizations, and the United Nations system, committed to strengthening AIDS programming for women and girls. Our mission is to mobilize leadership and political will to influence laws, policies, programmes, and funding, to promote action that gives girls and women the power to prev
Global / HIV and Law: Global Commission on HIV and the Law seeking submissions from Africa
THE GLOBAL COMMISSION ON HIV AND THE LAW IS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FROM AFRICA DEADLINE: 10 JUNE 2011 On behalf of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, this is a Call for Submissions for the Africa Regional Dialogue. The Regional Dialogue will take place on 3-4 August 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Global / universal access: videos from women's strategy meeting
Below are links to videos made at the women's strategy meeting, which was organized by GESTOS and the Global Coalition of Women and AIDS (GCWA), in preparation for the Civil Society Hearings in New York, 8 of April. The film reflects important concerns raised by the participants, and records the process of a productive dialogue and political thoughts towards improving the AIDS responses and policies for women worldwide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJou86sZtA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xij-U3swY We hope you find them useful! Please disseminate to your networks.
Global / women's and girls' rights: Put girls first, speakers urge governments during Commission on Population and Development event
“Investing in adolescent girls benefits everyone, and when they flourish, their families and communities flourish as well. That’s why they are at the heart of our agenda.” This was the message of Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, speaking at the 44th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD). Dr Osotimehin addressed a side event called Putting Girls First during the CPD, which ran from 11-15 April at UN Headquarters in New York.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Women: FHI to Initiate Orderly Closure of FEM-PrEP
Following a scheduled interim review of the FEM-PrEP study data, the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) advised that the FEM-PrEP study will be highly unlikely to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of Truvada [emtricitabine (FTC) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)] in preventing HIV infection in the study population, even if it continued to its originally planned conclusion. FHI subsequently concurred and has therefore decided to initiate an orderly closure of the study over the next few months. The final analyses have not yet been conducted.
GCWA: Jantine Jacobi, new head of Gender and AIDS at UNAIDS
The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, has appointed Dr Jantine Jacobi to head the Gender and AIDS Team in the UNAIDS Secretariat. She will also provide leadership within the Secretariat for the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. Dr Jacobi led the work on the Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, developed through the Global Task Force, under the leadership of the Executive Director of UNAIDS.
Kenya / Prevention-PMTCT: Missed opportunities for HIV testing of pregnant women
Kenyan women are becoming infected with HIV during pregnancy at very high rates, and repeat testing prior to delivery or at the earliest possible opportunity after birth should be encouraged in order to reduce mother to child transmission, Kenyan researchers reported last week at the Seventeenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco. When mothers who tested tested negative before giving birth were retested six weeks after having given birth at six health clinics in Nairobi and Western Kenya, they showed a significant HIV incidence researchers reported last w
Central America / Epidemic: El sida se desplaza hacia los jóvenes y las mujeres en Centroamérica
SAN JOSE - La epidemia del sida se está desplazando rápidamente hacia las personas más jóvenes y las mujeres en Centroamérica, por lo que urge programas educativos y de prevención, informaron expertos que preparan un congreso regional sobre el tema. En la mayoría de los países del istmo, las nuevas infecciones con el virus se están dando en personas entre los 15 y 24 años y hay un aumento importante del número de mujeres afectadas. En el caso de Honduras, la relación de casos por sexo ya ha llegado a ser de 1 a 1 entre hombres y mujeres, luego de que la enfermedad se focalizaba principalmente
Thailand / Stigma: Thai Women with HIV Break Silence, Confront Stigma
TRAT, Thailand, Feb 22 (IPS) - Veena Panudej makes a living in the night like so many other women and men in this quiet eastern corner of Thailand. They work under the light of the stars in rubber estates spread beyond this city close to the Cambodian border. By sunrise, Veena takes stock of what she has finished in her nocturnal job, tapping rubber trees for the white sap that is collected in coconut shells attached to the slender trunks of each tree. The 34-year-old was hardly disappointed on a recent Tuesday by a ritual that began shortly after midnight.
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