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• Ensure access to inclusive and • Promote safety for all women and • Promote the dignity and rights of
holistic prevention, treatment, care, girls through the HIV response, by all women and girls, and eliminate
and support services for women and eliminating gender-based violence and stigma and discrimination
girls in all our diversity ending harmful customary practice
“Health workers are still judgmental
“Provision of comprehensive sexual and “Legislation around domestic violence, about HIV positive women’s sexual and
reproductive health services to women sexual violence, and other laws that protect reproductive choices.”
living with HIV including family planning women’s rights exist on paper but are
options and youth friendly services through frequently not translated or comprehensively
one stop centres.” implemented.”
Acknowledgements
The ATHENA Network and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS acknowledge and appreciate our outstanding team whose
collaboration, investment, and shared expertise has made a virtual consultation for women and girls, and this call to action, toward
the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS possible.
Lead authors Regional focal points Asia and the Pacific Eastern Europe Shannon Hayes
and coordinating team and technical experts Ishita Chaudhry and Central Asia Zhenya Maron
Luisa Orza (ATHENA) East and Southern Africa Rathi Ramanathan Anna Zakowicz Inviolata Mbwavi
Tyler Crone (ATHENA) Lydia Mungherera Svetlana Moroz
Caribbean North America Alessandra Nilo
Claudia Ahumada (GCWA) Esther Mwaura-Muiru
Olive Edwards and Western Europe Isabel Nuñes
Alice Welbourn Leah Okeyo
Ebony Johnson Hendrica Okondo
(Salamander Trust) Johanna Kehler Latin America Silvia Petretti Erin O’Mara
Mmapaseka Steve Letsike Eugenia Lopez Uribe
GCWA team MariJo Vazquez
Violeta Ross Key collaborators
Jantine Jacobi (UNAIDS) West and Central Africa Anandi Yuvraj
Tamil Kendall Lilian Abracinskas
Nazneen Damji (UN Women) Assumpta Reginald
Judith Bisumbu Graphic design
Kreena Govender (UNAIDS)
Middle East and North Africa Juliana Davids
Matthew Cogan (UNAIDS) Ann Sappenfield
Valli Yanni