On July 1st, Alia Amimi, our Gender Advocacy Lead, conducted a hybrid mentorship session with women’s organisations in India about the critical aspects of the Global Fund and the Grant cycle 7. Twenty-one women participated and had an insightful dialogue about how to engage in health advocacy spaces in India through the Global Fund. Mentorship […]
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 AIDS Strategy is a new approach to use an inequality lens to ensure that the gaps that are preventing progress towards ending AIDS are closed. The Strategy aims to address the specific factors that have slowed progress and caused the response to fail the people who are most vulnerable to HIV, especially those […]
Crimes involving violence against women are among the most under-reported and the least likely to end with a just sentence. Over the past weeks, we have seen thousands of women protest all over the world supporting demonstrations over the deaths of women in all their diversity as a result of the persisting Gender Based Violence […]
We write to you on behalf of Women4GlobalFund (W4GF) Advocates and the Her Voice Fund. We are a global network of gender equality advocates from 62 countries1 , committed to ensuring that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) programmes are gender-transformative to meet the rights and priorities of women and […]
We write to you on behalf of Women4GlobalFund (W4GF) Advocates and the Her Voice Fund. We are a global network of gender equality advocates from 62 countries1, committed to ensuring that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) programmes are gender-transformative to meet the rights and priorities of women and girls […]
We write to you on behalf of Women4GlobalFund (W4GF) Advocates and the Her Voice Fund. We are a global network of gender equality advocates from 62 countries, committed to ensuring that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) programmes are gender transformative to meet the rights and priorities of women and […]
The Steering Group of Women4Global Fund (W4GF) is pleased to announce that Ángela León Cáceres from Ecuador has been appointed as our new Global Coordinator, with effect from August 2022. Ángela is a feminist, sensitive, and empathic health advocate and researcher, guided by the principles of humanity, active listening, and sharing; committed to overcoming stigma, […]