HIV/AIDS Activist Interviews
Team: Malgorzata Juszczak, Franziska Kunze, Natalie Rodic, Marzena Szewczyk, Jennifer Zanowiak
Semester: Spring 2007
There currently is an important debate underway about how best to address the 'testing gap' and the tremendous need for more individuals to know their HIV status. As the global community scales up treatment and support services for persons living with HIV and AIDS, it is critically important that the individuals who could benefit from those services be connected to them. While there is agreement that a serious challenge is at hand, there are significant differences on how best to move forward. The consultant would work with a core group of ATHENA members from around the world and other leading human rights experts to identify important areas of consensus and key issues of debate.
Deliverables:
o Field analysis including a compendium of research, interviews, and policy statements/guidance.
o Rights-based consensus statement that identifies the core areas of agreement between the gender, human rights, and HIV communities.
Activities:
o Work on a cutting edge policy issue
o Interviews and consultation with leading experts and key stakeholders
o Policy analysis
o Document drafting
o International strategy calls
Mujeres Adelante: Building Toward Nairobi and Mexico City
As the world enters the third decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, women - especially the young and the poor - are increasingly affected. Because gender inequity fuels HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS fuels gender inequity, it is imperative that women and girls speak out, set priorities for action, and lead the global response to the crisis.
The ATHENA Network proposes to build from its history of organizing at recent International AIDS Conferences to initiate and coordinate a civil society process of preparing for the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The first focal point will be the International Women's Summit in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2007. The proposed activities will promote the leadership of women living with HIV/AIDS; facilitate regional coalition building around gender, human rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS; raise the visibility of regional priorities; create vehicles for the central participation of community-based women leaders; and, build a robust, coordinated gender, human rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS presence at AIDS 2008. ATHENA will work in partnership with local and regional stakeholders to develop a shared agenda for action.
Core principles for our work include:
Partnering with local organizations and initiatives
Partnering with HIV-positive women's groups
Advancing human rights
Bridging the gender, human rights, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS communities
Addressing neglected or contentious human rights issues
Linking the global with the local
Linking research, policy, advocacy, and practice
Developing and supporting the leadership capacity of women and girls, especially those living with HIV/AIDS
Enabling individuals and organizations to be agents of change
Core Documents
Terms of Reference
Timeline
Final Presentation
Additional Documents
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