More than Our Status! Our Bodies! Our Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights!

July 20th 2015 #DoYouSeeHIV Campaign launch!

Using the backdrop of the final session of the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) and the Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) are kicking off the #DoYouSeeHIV advocacy campaign on JULY 20 2015 to raise awareness of how reducing HIV stigma can positively change the lives of women living with HIV and improve their access to quality sexual and reproductive health services.

This global campaign was the result of the Young Women’s Strategy Meeting in Abuja, where 22 young HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights activists came together from Nigeria, India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Russia, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Vietnam and spent time strategizing how to strengthen a joint response to address the stigma for women living with HIV in accessing sexual and reproductive health services.

Together they decided to form a global campaign under the slogan More than Our Status! Our Bodies! Our Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights! with the hashtags #DoYouSeeHIV and #MoreThanOurStatus.

The Young Women’s Strategy Meeting is part of a 1 –year project by the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) and the Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) funded by Oxfam Novib and Stop AIDS Now!

 From now until World AIDS Day, December 1, 2015, the project will support the amazing work that the networks of women activists are doing in Nigeria and around the world!

Follow the campaign via Social Media!

Facebook:www.facebook.com/doyouseehiv

Twitter: @doyouseehiv

Website: www.doyouseehiv.org

If you’d like to find out more about the Campaign and what advocacy activities the coalition will be leading, please contact:

Jessica Whitbread. ICW Community Relations and Mobilization Manager
communityrelations@iamicw.org

or

Lara Cousins. WGNRR Advocacy Officer
lara@wgnrr.org