Zero discrimination day statement: A healthy community is a productive community

For Immediate Release : 1st March 2024, Kampala, Uganda “To protect everyone's health, protect everyone's rights”[1] is 2024’s theme for the Zero Discrimination Day.  Zero Discrimination Day which is commemorated…

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Upholding Dignity: Protecting the rights of women living with HIV against forced sterilization.

The International Community of women living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) joined the vital campaign against forced and coerced sterilization of women living with HIV in 2014. This nearly ten-year…

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Call for Nominations – Uganda Country FIERCE Awards 2023

Under the theme "Recognizing your contributions: inspiring young women leaders," the 2023 ICWEA FIERCE Campaign Awards will recognize and celebrate the lives of women living with HIV at all levels, inspiring young women to take up leadership positions and build the movement of women beyond borders.

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ICW FAMILY WELCOMES FINDINGS BY THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA THAT THE FORCED STERILIZATION OF A WOMAN LIVING WITH HIV IS DISCRIMINATION!

After an 8-year wait, women living with HIV who have been fighting to achieve justice for forced and coerced sterilization have been handed a major win by the High Court of Kenya. The court has ruled that a healthcare provider had forced a woman living with HIV to undergo tubal ligation without her consent

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Ms. Immaculate Owomugisha, the New Treasurer for ICW Global International Steering Committee 2021

The International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) joins the women's movement with great joy to congratulate Ms. Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare who was elected on the ICW Global Executive of the Board (International Steering Committee) as the Treasurer.

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