ICW Programmes

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.

ICW is currently putting together an online guide to activism.
As you will see when you click on this link the guide is in its infancy! We need your help and ideas with developing this resource. Are there any other areas you would like to see covered? Is there anything you would like to add - tools and methods you have used, examples from your own work, guides you have found useful, organizations that have helped you, instruments that haven't? We welcome your additions.

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.

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.

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. Click on 'read more' to view more about the workshops and ongoing project.

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.

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.

In order to examine the gender-based challenges faced by young women living with HIV and AIDS in Swaziland the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is planning a national workshop of young women living with HIV in Swaziland in the month of October, 2004.

REPORT, National Summit, Durban, South Africa. 7 - 8 August 2003
The Summit was hosted by The Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) and International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW)
With funding from NOVIB

Gender Aids Forum (GAF) together with International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS (I.C.W) hosted a summit in Durban, KZN Province in South Africa. The theme of the summit was “Confronting Marginalization Together in the Context of HIV/AIDs” One of the marginalized groups that the summit was going to discuss was women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

The organisers felt that women living with HIV/AIDS should be involved during the planning process. Their role was to develop the discussion paper that was used during the summit using their stories and experiences and which forms a part of this article. The paper was adopted and approved by women living with HIV/AIDS during the women’s caucus which was held a day before the summit. This resulted with the launch of I.C.W. – RSA.