Advancing Women’s Leadership in Global AIDS Policymaking

In 2008, building upon the revolutionary GlobalPOWER® model, the Center launched a partnership with the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) to bring together women Members of Parliament and Ministers, women living with HIV/AIDS and NGO leaders, and women journalists from around the world to build new global partnerships to promote woman-centered HIV/AIDS policy in their countries.

• In June 2008, women leaders – from Kenya, India, and Mexico – came to Washington and New York to create their strategies, share their knowledge, and inspire their colleagues on Capitol Hill and at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York. Read more about this program in the September 2008 E-News from the Center. To learn about the participants, click here.

Front row, L-R:Hon. Najma Heptulla, Shilpa Merchant, Hon. Maya Singh; Second row, L-R: Rocio Sanchez Gutierrez, Esther Corona Vargas, Celina Menezes D’Costa, Ranjita Biswas; Third row, L-R:Pamela Asigi, Hon. Cecily Mbarire, Carmen Escobosa, Jemimah Nindo Atieno, Selestine Otom Akoth; Fourth row, L-R:Hon. Adriana Gonzalez Carrillo, Mwendwa Kiogora, Teresa Rehman, Hon. Rosaura de Negre. © Sylvia Johnson Photography 2008

Front row, L-R: Rocio Sanchez Gutierrez, Esther Corona Vargas; Second row L-R: Hon. Rosaura de Negre, Hon. Adriana Gonzalez Carrillo, Carmen Escobosa. © Sylvia Johnson Photography 2008

Front row, L-R: Hon. Najma Heptulla, Teresa Rehman, Hon. Maya Singh; Second row L-R: Celina Menezes D’Costa, Shilpa Merchant, Ranjita Biswas. © Sylvia Johnson Photography 2008

L-R: Hon. Amina Abdalla, Hon. Cecily Mbarire, Hon. Donald M. Payne, Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe, Center's President, Gifti Nadi, Mwendwa Kiogora, Pamela Asigi. © Sylvia Johnson Photography 2008