ICW submission to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population
Development and Reproductive Health hearings on maternal morbidity.

Summary

Introduction - The HIV Collaborative Fund for Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement is seeking proposals from organizations within Eastern Africa for the upcoming 2008-2009 grant cycle of funding for community-based HIV treatments literacy programs.

Summaries of ICW's latest projects, advocacy and publications - Please get in touch if you would like further information. Issue Six (September 2008)

The Latin American Coalition of First Ladies and Women Leaders celebrated, in Mexico prior to the XVII International AIDS Conference, its fifth meeting since its creation in 2006, under the slogan ‘Preventing the feminisation of the epidemic’.

Article abstract - In 1994, at the Paris AIDS summit, 42 nations declared their support for the principle of Greater Involvement of People Living with or Affected by HIV and AIDS – which came known as the GIPA principle. Although these governments acknowledged that this principle is critical to ethical and effective national responses to the pandemic, the views and voices of HIV-positive people still tend to be overlooked or ignored.

Friday, 29th of August 2008, By Wezi Tjaronda , WINDHOEK
Lack of transport to health services for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) has resulted in some not adhering to anti-retroviral treatment.
A report of an assessment conducted in two regions, Omusati and Karas, to gauge the impact of transport on access to health services for PLWHA in Namibia, says lack of appropriate and affordable transport hinders access to health services.

In 2006 three African clinical trials in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa, in which HIV negative men were circumcised, were disbanded when preliminary results indicated that the circumcised men were up to 60% less likely to become HIV infected after sex with an HIV positive woman than the men who were not circumcised.