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The Women’s Manifesto

Demanding an HIV response that works for women

 

Why this manifesto now

 

The Women’s Manifesto is a collective political statement shaped by women living with HIV across regions who came together to name what has been ignored, what has been lost, and what must change if the HIV response is to protect lives, rights, and dignity. It reflects knowledge grounded in lived experience, community organising, and decades of leadership that has sustained the response even when institutions withdrew support or turned away. The manifesto speaks from the reality that women living with HIV have never been passive recipients of care and have long been central to prevention, treatment, advocacy, and accountability.

The global HIV response is being quietly narrowed at a moment when women’s lives remain shaped by stigma, violence, economic insecurity, and exclusion from power. Funding cuts and shrinking civic space have weakened or dismantled women-led networks that once provided peer support, leadership development, and community accountability. Women’s health is increasingly reduced to pregnancy and prevention of vertical transmission, while broader realities of living with HIV across the life course are pushed to the margins. As HIV fades from political agendas in many settings, the visibility of women living with HIV fades with it, leaving hard-won gains at risk and entire networks hanging by a thread.

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Read the manifesto

Scan the QR code or click the link below to open the full Manifesto

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Organizations and networks that shaped and co-created the manifesto

This manifesto is the result of collective work by networks and organizations of women living with HIV across regions. It reflects shared leadership, commitment, and vision, bringing together diverse experiences and voices that continue to drive the struggle for dignity, rights, and justice.

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The World Council of Churches, whose support made the assembly possible. UNAIDS, for partnership and solidarity.

  • Association of Positive Youths Living with HIV in Nigeria (APYIN)

  • Associação Kindlimuka

  • Centre for Women Justice Uganda

  • Fiji Network for People Living with HIV (Fiji Network PLIS)

  • Global Coalition of Women Against HIV and AIDS in Guyana (GCWAG)

  • Hope for Future Generations (HFFG)

  • Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disability

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Asia Pacific (ICWAP)

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Eastern Africa (ICW EA)

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Eswatini (ICW Eswatini)

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Global (ICW Global)

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Moçambique (ICW Moçambique)

  • The International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW Democratic Republic of the Congo)

  • Trinidad and Tobago Community for Positive Women and Girls Living with and Affected by HIV

  • UHAI East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative (UHAI EASHRI)

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Moçambique

  • International Community of Women Living with HIV – Southern Africa (ICWSA)

  • Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC)

  • Living Positive Victoria

  • Loyiso Lindani Foundation NPO

  • Middle East and North Africa Network of Women Living with HIV (MENA Rosa)

  • National Federation of Women Living with HIV and AIDS – Nepal

  • Pan African Positive Women’s Coalition – Zimbabwe

  • Positive Women Victoria and National Network of Women Living with HIV Australia

  • Positive Women’s Network – South Africa

  • Samaj Kalyan O Unnayan Shangstha (SKUS) – Bangladesh

  • Single Mothers Living with HIV – Botswana

  • Sophia Forum – United Kingdom

  • Women Affected by HIV and AIDS (WABHA Inc.) – Papua New Guinea

  • Women4GlobalFund (W4GF)

  • Young Women Leadership Hub – Kenya

  • Youth Health Advocates Ghana (YHAG)

  • Network of Persons Living with HIV Ghana (NAP+ Ghana)

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