Consultation: Support the way forward for ICW
A questionnaire, developed by Jane Sloane - the lead consultant working on ICW's Strategic Plan, has been sent out with issue 42 of the ICW Newsletter to all of our members. We hope that many of you can take the time to fill in this questionnaire so that your thoughts, hopes and ideas can be part of the process of shaping the future of the network. ICW is yours - make sure that you and other ICW members feed into its future!
If you would like to fill in the questionnaire online or download a word version to either post or email back please follow the link – read more
Consultation : Soutenez le futur d’ICW
Un questionnaire développé par Jane Sloane, principale consultante travaillant sur le futur plan stratégique d'ICW, a été envoyé à toutes les adhérentes de l'association avec le numéro 42 de notre lettre d'informationICW Actualité . Nous espérons que beaucoup prendront le temps de le compléter car ainsi vos idées, vos suggestions, vos espoirs pourront être pris en compte lors du développement du futur de note réseau. ICW vous appartient. Impliquez-vous dans son avenir et assurez-vous que beaucoup fassent de même !
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Cuestionario : Apoya el avance de ICW
Jane Sloane, consultora principal para el Plan Estratégico de ICW, ha desarrollado un cuestionario que ha sido distribuido con el número 42 de ICW Noticias a todas nuestras miembros. Esperamos que muchas de ustedes tengan tiempo para rellenar este cuestionario para que sus ideas, esperanzas y pensamientos puedan formar parte del proceso de determinar el futuro de la red. ICW es tuya: asegúrate de que participas, al igual que otras miembros, en su futuro. ('Read more')
HIV Positive Women, Pregnancy and Motherhood
ICW submission to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population
Development and Reproductive Health hearings on maternal morbidity.
Summary
Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement – EATAM ANNOUNCEMENT
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.
Issue 6 of ICW's E-news
Summaries of ICW's latest projects, advocacy and publications - Please get in touch if you would like further information. Issue Six (September 2008)
ICW Latina News
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’.
The greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS: from principle to practice? - ICW article in PLA Notes
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.
Transport Hampers AIDS Treatment
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.
Male circumcision and the impact on women – an ICW response (plus useful resources)
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.