YOUNG WOMEN’S SRHR
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE APPLICATION
Women living with HIV, especially young women, experience significant obstacles when exercising their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and frequently report worldwide abuses and violations of their sexual and reproductive rights, within their families, healthcare settings and communities.
The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) together with the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) are undertaking a new project in Nigeria through the support of Stop AIDS NOW! (SAN). The project aims to bring together activists from the SRHR communities and HIV communities, in a unified movement to meaningfully improve the provision of SRHR services for all in Nigeria and around the world.
We are looking for interested, committed, and mobilized SRHR and HIV youth advocates from ICW’s Chapter of Young Women and Adolescent Girls (CYWAG)and WGNRR’s member organisations to form a team of 20 national and international youth advocates. Together they will work to develop and implement a global campaign strategy spring-boarding from the Nigeria case, that they will develop during a face-to-face meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, [1] on February 3-4, 2015. All flights, local travel costs, visa costs, accommodation, and meals of participants over the course of the Abuja meeting will be covered.
If you are a young woman under 30, from Latin America & the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, or the Middle East and North Africa, we encourage you to apply! *Young women living with HIV are strongly encouraged to apply.*
For more information and/or to download the application form, please CLICK HERE.Please send completed applications (including application form and reference letter) to: lara@wgnrr.org.
Deadline for all applications: 5:00pm EST November 21, 2014
[1] As of 20 October 2014, the World Health Organization has declared Nigeria to be officially free of Ebola. We are closely monitoring the health and safety situation of Nigeria, and will keep all selected participants informed of any changes, should they arise. All selected participants are strongly encouraged to procure travel health insurance for the trip to Abuja.
