News & Updates

W4GF attended the ICASA conference in Harare!

From December 3rd until December 9th, W4GF participated in the largest AIDS conference of Africa, organised in Harare, Zimbabwe. We aimed to contribute substantive insights into the opportunities and challenges surrounding gender equality within the comprehensive HIV response, mainly in focus countries of the  Global Fund. Notwithstanding the challenges they encountered, civil society organisations persist […]

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Empowering Women’s Participation in the Global Fund through regional platform RAME – Renforcer la participation des femmes au Fonds mondial par le biais de la plateforme régionale RAME

[English] On October 12, 2023, a webinar focused on women’s participation in the processes of the Global Fund was held. The event featured speakers Ida Savadogo from RAME platform and Brenda Formin from Women4GlobalFund. They discussed the importance of women’s involvement in Global Fund processes and presented initiatives to evaluate civil society engagement. The panelists […]

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WOMEN4GLOBALFUND JOINED THE WOMEN DELIVER CONFERENCE 2023

We’re thrilled to share that W4GF had a significant presence at the Women Deliver Conference 2023, held in Kigali-Rwanda. Our participation was dedicated to shedding light on the myriad challenges women and girls encounter when accessing comprehensive HIV, TB and Malaria services and highlighting the importance of gender-transformative policies in achieving sustainable and inclusive participation […]

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W4GF ANNUAL MEETING IN KIGALI

Women4GlobalFund held its annual meeting on 21-23 July in Kigali, Rwanda, following the Women Deliver 2023 Conference. The meeting was essential to strengthen our strategy, fulfil the organisation’s mission,  and ensure long-term sustainability. Our annual meeting has echoed the voices of change-makers and advocates who tirelessly work towards gender equality in all the Global Fund […]

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WOMEN4GLOBALFUND CLM-ACADEMY

July 13th 2023 Women4GlobalFund held a session about Community-led Monitoring on 13th July 2023 with National Focal Points and key partners from 10 different countries to implement capacity building and empower women and communities to lead CLM processes in their countries. We discussed  the Global Fund’s mission, how to plan, collect, analyse, and apply data […]

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Session de formation sur les aspects clés du Fonds Mondial – Cameroun / Training session on key aspects of the Global Fund – Cameroon

[French] Le 30 juin, Alia Amimi, W4GF Gender Advocacy Lead, a présenté les principaux aspects sur les mécanismes du Fonds Mondial, à 21 femmes du Cameroun afin de comprendre le contexte du pays dans la lutte contre le paludisme, le VIH et la tuberculose. La session s’est déroulée par groupes de participants à Yaoundé et […]

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W4GF WEBINAR: Empowering Women in Ghana for GC7: Navigating the Global Fund Grant Making Process and Beyond”

On June 21st, we held a mentorship session with 17 women, adolescents and girls from Ghana. Our goal is to sustain and strengthen advocacy skills among women to advocate for the Global Fund to prioritize work that advances gender equality and the meaningful engagement of women and girls We provided technical support and advocacy tools […]

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Strengthening the Engagement of Women Living with HIV-led Networks Series: Global Fund 101: Gender Interventions Webinar

On June 16th, W4GF co-organised with ICW  the webinar “Global Fund 101: reinforcing gender equality” for Women living with HIV and Key Populations, which purpose was to discuss how to ensure meaningful involvement of women in all of their diversity in the GC7 funding process and increase the inclusion of gender-sensitive and transformative actions in the requests. […]

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REINFORCING GENDER EQUALITY STRENGTHENING THE ENGAGEMENT OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV-LED NETWORKS

Background Promoting and protecting human rights and gender equality is an objective of the Global Fund Strategy 2017 – 2022 and should provide robust opportunities for community advocates addressing gender inequality in HIV, TB and malaria to participate and access resources.  However, a recent report commissioned by UNAIDS  on the Prioritization in Global Fund Grants: […]

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CALL TO ACTION: Urging the Ugandan Government to discard the anti-homosexuality bill 2023

Uganda is among three countries in sub-Saharan Africa and 22 countries globally with the highest HIV prevalence. This is attributed to significant levels of inequity, stigma, and discrimination. In Uganda, HIV continues to pose an important health and developmental threat. High rates of prevalence and girls and young women being particularly affected are of major […]

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