ICW Programmes

In the right hands -  HIV-positive women choose grassroots projects
HIV-positive women in East Africa are coordinating small grants for grassroots organisations working with women and children on HIV treatment literacy, advocacy and women’s economic autonomy. This is development in the hands of those who know the reality of life in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Africa. The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS, East Africa explains.

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.