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Our Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Priorities, November 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa
In response to the African Union’s efforts and our Heads of States’ commitments to women and girls on this continent, women and young women living with HIV from Eastern and Southern Africa have gathered at a historic meeting. The meeting aimed to identify strategies to better address the sexual and reproductive health rights and needs of women and girls living with HIV. The specific focus of the meeting was to highlight issues presented by the country representatives such as recurrent abuses in healthcare services, lack of access to information and/or services for cervical cancer, high rates of sexual violence and abuses as well as harmful cultural practices such as Female Genital Mutilation. These rights violations are a major cause and consequence of HIV for women in Africa.
The meeting in Johannesburg brought together 40 women living with HIV from Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe; the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria to support the development of the International Community of Women living with HIV in East and Southern African (ICW) sexual and reproductive health rights advocacy strategy.