ICW Programmes

Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement – EATAM ANNOUNCEMENT

Submitted by ICW on 16 September, 2008 - 10:41.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - Fourth Grant Cycle 2008-9

Introduction - The HIV Collaborative Fund for Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement is seeking proposals from organizations within Eastern Africa for the upcoming 2008-2009 grant cycle of funding for community-based HIV treatments literacy programs.

Overview of ICW’s Work to End the Forced and Coerced

Submitted by ICW on 21 August, 2008 - 14:35.
The Namibia forced sterilization project was initiated when 3 of the 30 participants of an the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) advocacy training project with young HIV positive women, stated that they had been sterilized with out their informed consent. This alarming fact initiated a series of focus groups and interviews that did in fact suggest that HIV positive women were being coerced or forced into sterilization by hospital staff in Namibia.

ICW and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) share the successes of our joint TB/HIV Project

Submitted by ICW on 19 August, 2008 - 12:07.

Read about the success stories and achievement of some of the activists as a result of the attending the ICW/TAG (Treatment Action Group) TB/HIV Advocacy Trainings Workshops and also being supported to attend key important TB/HIV Advocacy meeting and conferences...

DEVELOPING ADVOCACY SKILLS OF YOUNG POSITIVE WOMEN - Young Women's Dialogues

Submitted by ICW on 9 September, 2008 - 09:27.

About the YWDs

ICW advocacy work featured in the Oxfam Journal Gender and Development

Mapping of advocacy and policy opportunities and targets, and training in advocacy for positive women
ICW joined forces with the POLICY project and 40 HIV positive women from Swaziland and South Africa to conduct advocacy training and develop an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS.

Treatment Literacy and Advocacy By and For HIV Positive Women

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) declares our support for universal access to prevention, care, treatment and support for all - December 1st World AIDS Day.

ICRW Joins with African Parliamentarians

WASHINGTON – June 21, 2005 – The International Center for Research on Women and four key international partners (including ICW) will join forces with African parliamentarians to accelerate efforts to help women fight HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in East and southern Africa.

Positive women's workshops in Swaziland and Lesotho

Monitoring the political commitment of governments in response to the needs of women living with HIV. ICW, in collaboration with the Action Aid-managed initiative SIPAA (Support for the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa) held two week-long workshops in Swaziland (30th January - 4th February) and Lesotho (6th - 11th February) to monitor the political commitments to combating HIV and AIDS in the two countries and to measure the gender implications, specifically the implications for HIV positive women, of the governments' response.

Pharmacists Listen to HIV Positive Women

Pharmacists Listen to HIV Positive Women – Innovative Partnerships to Access Treatment, Information and Support.
In the first of a series of discussions between members of the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA) and ICW, pharmacists listened as HIV positive women spoke of their experiences living as HIV positive members of their communities. Pharmacists asked how they could facilitate treatment, care and support for HIV positive women and their families.

Young Women's Dialogue - Swaziland

The Swazi Young Women’s Dialogue, that took place at the end of October, represented the first of a programme of national workshops following on from the Young Women’s Dialogue held in April 2004, in South Africa which brought together 14 young women from East and Southern Africa.