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. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed numerous vulnerabilities in our global healthcare systems, economies, and social structures, especially in low- and middle-income countries. As the world is working towards establishing a pandemic treaty to address future crises effectively, it is imperative that we recognize as Women4GlobalFund the importance of including women and girls in all of […]
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: […]