Is universal health coverage working for women and girls? In September 2019, world leaders endorsed an ambitious and comprehensive political declaration on health at the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Some of the commitments that the UHC movement has focused on include gender equality – in particular to ensure […]
Calling W4GF Advocates to join the GFAN Speakers Bureau The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) first launched its ‘Ambassadors’ program – composed of people living with or affected by HIV, TB and/or malaria – for its Here I Am Campaign in 2010, with a new group in 2012-2013. This evolved in 2015 into a ‘Speakers Bureau’ […]
Documenting experiences & lessons learnt in Global Fund country dialogues Many Women4GlobalFund W4GF Advocates have engaged at the national level to influence funding requests submitted in the Global Fund’s 2020–2022 allocation cycle. Whilst we have made many strides, in some countries meaningful engagement remains a challenge and advocates have worked hard to advocate for programmes and services […]
Don’t miss the The Technical Review Panel (TRPs) report on window 1 and don’t miss the W4GF webinar on Monday 28 July as we dive into how we are doing in window 2! For more details about this webinar click here. The TRP releases reports and observations on the funding requests submitted to the Global […]
Community reflections from Global Fund window 2: How much progress are we making on gender equity? When Monday 27 July at 14:00 -15:30hrs (CAT) Why? Learn from countries that submitted funding requests in the Global Fund Window 2 [(2a) 30 April, 2b) 31 May, 2c) 30 June 2020]. The TRPs’ most recent report shows that despite some progress not […]
Women4GlobalFund has set up a working group to keep gender equity as a central priority in the next Global Fund Strategy (2023-2028). The W4GF team hope to find common positions so our voices are heard strongly – and to keep you up-to-date on the processes and timelines. Some of them will be quite demanding. See the timeline in the […]
Learning from Women4GlobalFund Advocates You are a valued member of our network—past and present! Please can you take 15 minutes to complete this survey to help us understand if W4GF is doing a good job (and how we can do better!) to support all of you working as great advocates at the national level. We […]
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 […]
WOMEN WHO USE DRUGS AND COVID-19: IMPACTS AND WAY FORWARD Médecins du Monde together with International Network of People Who Use Drugs, Harm Reduction International, European Network of People Who Use Drugs, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Health Organization and the International Drug Policy Consortium invite you to this webinar […]
Activism and AIDS: Protect civil society’s space to end the epidemic Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) welcome you to this exciting webinar that they are hosting at the Virtual AIDS 2020 Conference When: Friday 10 July 2020 at 14:00 -15:30 CEST. Launch of new research during the 23rd International AIDS conference, examines the risks and […]