We are proud to be part of the Aidsfonds EmpowHer Initiative through our programme “She Leads, She Decides: Shaping Policy and Driving Access to HIV Prevention.”
At a time of exciting advances in HIV prevention, including the breakthrough of Lenacapavir (LEN), we believe that women and girls in all their diversity, especially adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and those most at risk and in vulnerable settings, deserve access to information, meaningful participation and the right to choose from all available HIV prevention options according to their needs and preferences.
This includes prevention options such as oral PrEP, CAB-LA, condoms, the Dapivirine Ring and LEN. We welcome the roll-out of LEN and recognise its potential to strengthen women’s health autonomy. At the same time, innovation must go hand in hand with communities through knowledge-sharing, community ownership, stronger health systems, and efforts to tackle stigma, discrimination and gender inequalities.
We are undertaking this journey alongside our partners Foundation of Adolescent Girls and Young People in Zambia (FAPEZA) in Lusaka and the Copperbelt, and Fundação Hixikawe in Mozambique’s Gaza and Maputo provinces, with a regional reach across East and Southern Africa.
Together, we are working so that more women and girls in all their diversity can access, adopt and choose HIV prevention options; participate meaningfully in decision-making spaces; and influence the policies that shape health and equal opportunities.
Over the coming months, we will be sharing more about LEN, HIV prevention choices, women’s leadership and community-led advocacy through a series of resources and infographics.
We invite you to join us on this journey!
Read and share our infographics below.
LEN Belongs to you: Ask. Explore. Decide.
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