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Feminist Non-Negotiables for the 2026 HIV High-Level Meeting
The 2026 UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS comes at a time of growing attacks on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, bodily autonomy, and community leadership. Feminist Non-Negotiables for the 2026 HIV High-Level Meeting presents ten urgent priorities developed through consultations with feminist advocates, women-led networks, and community organizations across the global HIV response.
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Stigma Index and GC8: Informing Funding and Planning
A new policy brief is now available to support how stigma-related data is used in HIV responses, particularly in the context of funding and program design. This brief focuses on how data from the PLHIV Stigma Index can inform Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) processes. It highlights the role of community-led evidence in shaping funding requests, program priorities, and accountability mechanisms. While many data systems track coverage and outcomes, they often do not capture wha
Apr 10


Reclaiming Justice: Challenging Punitive Systems and Advancing Rights
Women living with HIV and allies reflect on how stigma, criminalization, and coercion shape everyday realities and what meaningful access to justice looks like beyond courts.
Apr 7


Zero Discrimination Day 2026 Webinar: From Root to Remedy Stigma, Discrimination, Justice and Healing
A webinar marking Zero Discrimination Day 2026 examined how stigma and discrimination continue to affect people living with HIV, drawing on evidence from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 and discussions on justice, healing, and systemic change.
Mar 4


Rights, Respect, Justice & Dignity Human Rights Day Webinar
Join ICW on December 10 Human Rights Day for Rights, Respect, Justice & Dignity! Register here https://bit.ly/3MgKm4k
Dec 9, 2025


HIV IS NOT OVER! ICW raises the alarm over UNGA80 Proposal to Sunset UNAIDS as dangerous for Women and Communities Living with HIV
The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) strongly condemns the UNGA80 reform proposal that would sunset or dismantle...
Sep 19, 2025
What we cannot live without: Non-Negotiables for Women in Global Fund Reprioritization.
As Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) reprogramming unfolds amidst severe funding cuts, women and girls in all our diversity are being forced to choose between essentials: maternal care or mental health, harm reduction or peer support. These aren’t luxuries—they are life-saving, rights-affirming services. ICW Global and W4GF, in partnership with YOUNITE TB, TB Women, and CS4ME, conducted a rapid global assessment to ask: what can we not live without? Nearly 100 women across regi
Jul 7, 2025


New Report Release: No More Business as Usual. A Gender-Transformative Response to the USAID Freeze Crisis is Urgent.
The USAID funding freeze is putting women living with HIV and the grassroots organizations that support them at risk. Our latest report reve
Feb 27, 2025


Women living with HIV continue to face violations of their sexual and reproductive rights—including coercion into sterilization
Munich 24 July 2024--Women living with HIV including women from key populations continue to suffer widespread reproductive coercion,...
Jul 24, 2024


Meet the experts for the Breastfeeding Symposium: "Latching on to Freedom: A Global Dialogue On Reproductive Justice For Women Living With HIV"
ICW Global invites you to an impactful Knowledge Exchange Session as part of our ongoing efforts to advocate for reproductive justice
Jul 18, 2024


Where is the funding for women living with HIV in MENA? An urgent call to action
By increasing funding for women living with HIV and other marginalized populations in the MENA region, we can end AIDS and reduce HIV while
Apr 9, 2024


Justice at last for women living with HIV!
Justice at Last! Women living with HIV around the world celebrate this historic victory alongside our sisters in Kenya . We recognize...
Sep 29, 2023


Breastfeeding and HIV: Advancing sexual and reproductive rights
As we mark the final day of World Breastfeeding Week, we've collaborated with ICW, GNP+, Y+, EPIC, and PAC to bring together a group of expe
Aug 7, 2023


Confronting Coercion: Increasing Accountability for SRHR violations.
Commission on the Status of Women Parallel Event This panel discussion was led by the International Community of Women Living with HIV, we...
Aug 7, 2023


ICW mourns the passing of Veronika Kalambi, a beloved advocate for women living with HIV in Namibia
ICW has lost a sister and our movement has lost a powerful voice for change.
Apr 12, 2023


ICW applauds High Court of Kenya finding - forced sterilization of woman with HIV is discriminatory!
Nairobi - December 19, 2022 – After an 8 year wait, women living with HIV who have been fighting to achieve justice for forced and...
Dec 23, 2022


Community Participation at AIDS 2022 Statement
With just under 2 weeks to go to AIDS 2022, communities are concerned about their ability to participate in-person at this year’s largest...
Jul 13, 2022


Welcome ICW's Young Advocates Media Team
ICW is proud to introduce you to our Young Advocates Media Team - Joy Abahi Oboyi and Faith Onuh from Nigeria, Svetlana Bondarenko from...
Nov 19, 2021


ICW Announces New International Steering Committee Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer
The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) International Steering Committee (ISC) has elected Charity Mkona of Malawi,...
Oct 11, 2021


World AIDS Day 2020: Centering Key Populations in the Global HIV Response
Today, we commemorate World AIDS Day in support of people living with and affected by HIV, and to remember and celebrate those who lost...
Nov 30, 2020


