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 […]
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. […]
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: […]
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 […]
The Global Fund’s regional platform for North Africa and the Middle East – International Treatment Prepardness Coalition (ITPC) MENA – finalised a case study. It documents their support to communities in Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, and Tunisia as they prepared their C19RM applications to the Global Fund. Read more about the case study findings and how these countries are […]
This webinar will take place on Wednesday , May 12, 2021 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) on Microsoft Teams Meeting Do you wonder how engaging men in a malaria program can bring about change in saving pregnant women and their babies lives in Liberia? Do you wonder how adolescent girls in Malawi can […]
W4GF are excited to see the new UNAIDS strategy End Inequalities. End AIDS. Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026, published on 2 March 2021, which will be presented to the PCB later this month. As part of the W4GF Strategy Development working group we included the UNAIDS strategy given that the Global Fund’s Strategy is aligned to […]
We are now 40 years into the HIV epidemic and although many gains have been made we still see the same vulnerability of women to HIV, but we also see some way forward in terms of HIV as an entry point to affect the changes we need around inequalities including gender inequalities. The next global […]
Log in and check out AIDS2020 and HIV2020 In these difficult times of life with COVID-19, much of the world has gone virtual and AIDS 2020 and HIV 2020 are paving the way in virtual conferences. I am Lucy Wanjiku Njenga, the Women4GlobalFund Programme Officer and I am a plenary speaker at the AIDS 2020 […]