Priorities

The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS will focus on strengthening women’s leadership and access to decision making for HIV, leveraging the link to the UNAIDS Agenda for Women and Girl. GCWA will support these areas of focus through global level advocacy. To this end, it will draw on field level experiences of members.

The GCWA will target its advocacy around the theme of "investing in women and HIV"In line with this theme, during the course of 2011-12, it wil produce the following outputs:

1. Issues briefs on related issues including the following:

• Harm reduction for drug use and commercial sex work
• Violence against women and girls, and HIV
• Access to funds/donors
• Caregiving
  

2. Donor briefs, including on  the following:

• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
  
• United Kingdom Department for International Development
  
• The European Union
  

3. Advocacy at high level events including the following;

• The Commission on the Staus of Women
  
• Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union (AU)
  
• UA High Level Meeting
  
• Global Fund review of gender policy
  
• World YWCA International Women’s Summit
  
• 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
  
• UN Summit on non-communicable diseases