The Women's Declaration from the 11th International Conference for People with HIV/AIDS, held last week in Kampala, Uganda. If you are able to, please print out the Declaration (Use the printer friendly buttons, or a PDF version is here) - ideally on a colour printer - and display it in a prominent place - in your office, your college, school, town hall, youth centre, place of worship - wherever you think it will best be seen and read by others.

Please forward it to your leaders, no matter where you work or who they may be, so that as many people as possible see and hear this message from the HIV positive women from 5 continents who took part in this conference.

WOMEN’S DECLARATION

11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS

OCTOBER 2003

TO ALL WORLD LEADERS -

governments
businesses
the United Nations
religious groups
pharmaceutical companies and
civil society organisations

AIDS is killing the world’s workers and leaders – women, men and our children

Commitment statements are not enough

Take up your responsibilities as leaders


Now is the time for global united action

Our demands are affordable and must be resourced. We are ready – you just need to act

We women of the world want human rights upheld:

treatment for ALL NOW

This declaration was issued by many of the women attending the

11th International Conference of HIV Positive people,

Kampala, Uganda,

October 2003

For more information about how HIV affects women and girls worldwide,

visit www.icw.org