International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)

An international network run for and by HIV positive women that promotes and advocates changes to improve their quality of life.

Work of the organisation includes:

• creating a sense of solidarity between women living with HIV/AIDS
• giving HIV positive women a unified voice in policy forums by working with them on issues of concern before and during conferences
• ensuring HIV positive women speak at major HIV/AIDS conferences by co-organising such events and ensuring women have the opportunity to speak
• providing training for positive women's empowerment in Africa and Latin America that is inspired, planned and run by positive women for positive women
• providing skills building workshops at conferences for instance in sexual and reproductive rights and microbicides
• completing participatory research into HIV positive women's concerns and needs around reproductive and sexual health
• producing written resources inspired by HIV positive women, incorporating their voices, for other HIV positive women
• establishing an organisational structure and relationships between HIV positive women that reach out to HIV positive women at local levels