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. […]
On May 23rd, more than 25 organizations came together in a Joint-learning virtual meeting to strategies a roadmap for developing tools to guide women, girls, and adolescents in their diversity to navigate the Global Fund New Granting Cycle. We aim to ensure their meaningful participation in designing and implementing gender-transformative actions. The result of our […]
W4GF aims to make accessible and understandable the current Global Fund Strategy (2023-2028), with a particular focus on disseminating the importance of the catalytic investments for faster progress in reducing new infections, addressing structural barriers to improved HIV, tuberculosis and malaria outcomes and building equity, sustainability and lasting impact. On May 29th, we held a […]
Honourable Lady Roslyn Morauta Global Fund Board Chair Honourable Bience Gawanas Global Fund Vice-Chair RE: Strengthening partnerships for gender equality and equity between The Global Fund and Women4GlobalFund Women 4 Global Fund (W4GF) welcomes your appointment as Chair of the Global Fund Board. We believe that your experience and career in fighting for the most […]
Today we recall the outstanding debts with transgender women rights to recognize their gender identity and access to proper health services for them to live fulfilling and secure lives. Transgender women are a key population that faces structural barriers: a. They battle greater risks and vulnerability due to the situation of criminalization laws in many […]
Call for International Action The war in Sudan is devastating. Deaths and human rights violations are affecting women. In early May, Sudanese Women Rights Action (SUWRA) reported that dozens of women had been killed and at least seven raped by both warring parties. Hundreds of women are fleeing the conflict with their children into neighbouring […]
To download a printable copy of this statement click here After years of steady declines, malaria cases and deaths are on the rise. We are not on track to reach the goal of ending malaria as a public health threat by 2030 and gender inequalities. We must strive to provide better and more equitable access […]
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 […]