International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW)

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International Community of Women Living with HIV
(ICW)
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ICW advocacy areas

• Access to care, treatment and support
• Sexual and reproductive health rights
• The meaningful involvement of HIV positive women
  in all decision making that affects their lives

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Ipas

• Fulfilling reproductive rights for women affected
  by HIV
• A tool for monitoring achievement of Millennium
  Development Goals

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3 Millennium Development Goals

• MDG 3 aims to promote gender equality and
  empowering women
• MDG 5 aims to improve maternal health by reducing
  the maternal mortality ratio by 75, while
• MDG 6 aims to halt and begin to reverse the
  spread of HIV/AIDS

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4 trials

• 2004-2005
• Swaziland and Lesotho
• 2005-2006
• Nambia and Botswana

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Context of trials

• Swaziland and Lesotho development of monitoring
  tool Positive Women Monitoring Change looking
  at UNGASS, Abuja and GIPA
• Supported by ActionAid/SIPAA

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Context of trials

• Namibia ACTS mapping (WHO) Parliamentarians
  for womens health (ICRW-led consortium)
• Botswana Parliamentarians for Womens Health
  (ICRW-led consortium)

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Challenges

• Extractive? What do the participants get out of
  their involvement?
• Time and resources constraints how to get the
  most reliable data in a short period of time and
  with minimal resources?
• Process / framework to analyse experiences
• Lack of triangulation with service providers or
  programme managers or policy makers

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Balance usefulness resources

• Projects mutually inform each other
• Increase awareness of rights among women
  participating in the trials
• Input into ICW advocacy research

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Future

• Development and application of ICW tool
• Working with service providers
• Use of different international policy instruments
• Ipas-ICW partnership