Developing and promoting women’s leadership at all levels is key to strengthening responses to the pandemic and ensuring that HIV and AIDS programmes work for women and girls. Given that HIV and AIDS is connected to social, cultural, economic and political issues that make women and girls vulnerable to HIV infection the question of women’s leadership becomes vital to reversing the trend of infections among women and girls.

This stream will look at the many components that make up women’s leadership from strengthening women’s capacity to access resources, highlighting good practices and developing strategies to replicate these in various contexts, public speaking for positive women to analyzing leadership itself. This stream will bring a greater understanding of how leadership is and should be defined in the context of HIV and AIDS.

Below is a list of workshops that are being offered under this stream:

• Accessing funding from the global fund for AIDS programs (World Vision International); July 6, 14h30-17h30
• Telling your story, how to decide (Voice of positive women, blueprint for Action on Women and girls and HIV, Athena); July 4, 11h-12h30, 14h-15h30
• Caregivers leading the response to AIDS in their communities forming the home-based care alliance in Africa (Huairou Commission); July 5, 16h30-18h
• Womens leadership in response to HIV and AIDS ( African Women of Distinction project); July 7, 11h-12h30
• Strenghtening the engagement of women's rights NGOs and the global fund (Open Society Institute); July 6, 11h-12h30
• Women, power and politics: building skills for the best advocate at the table (ICW); July 4, 11h-12h30
• Advancing personal leadership to strenghten the response to AIDS (Centre for Development and Population Activities), July 6, 14h30-17h30
• Womens leadership in response to HIV and AIDS (YWCA Rwanda); July 7, 11h-12h30
• Public speaking for positive women Part A: speaking techniques and structuring your presentation (Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV); July 4, 11h-12h30, 14h-15h30
• The power of support (Positive women Inc. NZ); July 4, 14h-15h30
• Women and girls living with HIV and AIDS - face to face (Positive women Inc. NZ); July 5, 16h30-18h
• Ripples of leadership (Developpment Initiative for Community Enhancement); July 7, 11h-12h30
• The power of peers within the feminisation of AIDS (World); July 7, 11h-12h30
• Tamar Campaign: stop sexual violence and contextual bible studies (Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa); July 5, 16h30-18h
• The role and contribution of positive women and faith communities in the response to AIDS (World Council of Churches); July 7, 11h-12h30