Women and Girls in All Our Diversity Must Be at the Center of the Response
As funding disruptions ripple across the global HIV, TB, and malaria responses, women and girls are being asked to make impossible choices—between mental health care and maternal care, between harm reduction and childbirth safety, between peer support and protection from violence. These are not luxuries. They are the very foundations of a rights-based approach to health.
This is why W4GF and ICW have come together to assert what must not be lost in the reprioritization process under the Global Fund’s Grant Cycle 7 (GC7): a set of non-negotiable, life-saving, feminist priorities grounded in the lived realities of women and girls in all of our diversity.
How We Built This Manifesto
Through a rapid global assessment, W4GF and ICW consulted nearly 100 women and girls living with or affected by HIV, TB, and malaria. From Sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America, from South Asia to MENA, their voices shaped this set of feminist priorities.
We identified both shared global needs—like ART access and respectful maternal care—and regional differences that show how context and identity shape what life-saving really means.
Read our Manifesto with the key outcomes from our global consultation.