Drawing on international human rights legislation and advocacy
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
| Website: | http://www.icw.org/tiki-view_articles.php |
| Email: | info@icw.org |
| Tel: | +44 20 7704 0606 |
| Fax: | +44 20 7704 8070 |
| Address: | International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2C Leroy House, 436 Essex Rd., London, N1 3QP , United Kingdom |



