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*Over 20 ICW members and staff participated in the 59th** Commission on the
Status of Women. *We were proudly represented at our 4 side events, 10
panel presentations, over 20 unique of stakeholder meetings, and more than
35 sessions, as well as around the streets of NYC during the International
Women’s Day March. In addition to this we distributed the materials to our
partners and country delegates, including the First Lady of Kenya, and
shared pictures of people wearing the t-shirts and pins on social media.
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  *Post 2015 Engagement at UN Headquarters in NYC*: ICW participated in the
Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations focusing on goals, targets, and
indicators in NYC the week of March 23 – 27th. ICW Member Florence Anam and
Global Staff Rachel Oostendorp continued ICW’s advocacy for the inclusion
of issues impacting women living with HIV within the new set of Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). The intergovernmental negotiations on Post-2015
will continue through July and the new SDGs will be announced in September
of this year

*Global Fund hosted a Board Meeting *where a number of ICW members
participated including our Global Fund Coordinator Maurine Murenga. The
33rd Global Fund board meeting saw the coming in of Norbert Hauser, a
former Member of Parliament and international auditor from Germany, as its
new Chair and Aida Kurtovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Vice-Chair. Both
began serving a two-year term after the adjournment of the 33rd board
meeting. The meeting also saw decisions made on Global fund’s ability to
fund other co-infections and co-morbidities related to HIV such as
Hepatitis C and Cancer. Global Fund also announced the development of its
new strategy that should be out by 2016.

  *ICW had a team of 8 that marched in the* *International Women’s Day
March* on March 8th. During the march we wore the “LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN”
t-shirts, which made us the focus of social media and individual photos.

     ICW participated in the *UNAIDS End Review Agenda for Women, Girls,
Gender Equality & HIV* during CSW59 on Thursday, March 12th. Together with
members of World YWCA, ATHENA, GESTOS and other partners we reviewed the
Agenda as a tool and talked about the successes, challenges and dreams for
the future. It was noted that participation in the room was low, and we
need commitments from our partners to ensure that women and HIV are on the
agenda and prioritized moving forward.

    The Positive Women in the Ukraine hosted a session at CSW 59 titled – *One
Step Back? Positive Women Speak About Beijing and Coping with Challenges to
Women’s Health in Times of Conflict* on March 12th. In this session they
reminded participants of the brutalities of war and highlighted the fact
that there are stock outs of ARVs, lack of social supports, and increasing
numbers of women and girls contracting HIV in the country. They call on
governments and the international community to help support them at this
time.

ICW partnered with ATHENA, Link Up, AIDS Alliance, AIDS Legal Network and
Access Chapter 2 for the second year in a row to host a session at
CSW59 *titled
>From Criminalization to Agency: African Women’s Voice on HIV and Human
Rights **on March 12th*. This dynamic and interactive dialogue featured the
voiced of women from Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria and other places
around the world talking about the Beijing Declaration 20 years later. We
called for a stronger united movement where the rights of all women in all
our diversity are respected equally. Aminat Alli talked specifically about
some of the work that ICW West Africa has been doing in Nigeria with WGNRR
to link the SRHR and HIV movements.

ICW partnered with Visual AIDS and the Jane Mitchell Foundation to host a
WERRRKSHOP titled *My Body! My Rights! Intergenerational Banner Making
Workshop **on Friday March 13**in NYC. *This workshop had 40 participants
that jointly collaborated to create banners with messages that spoke to the
power of women and reproductive justice.

    These powerful banners were then carried to other events through out
the week and will live in the ICW office for future events. Jointly 5
banners pieces were created with messaging that spoke to the collective
power of women, reproductive justice, and reminders that all communities
are impacted by HIV.

  *My Womb! My Decision! Reproductive Justice and Activism *was a
collaborative public event at Cooper Union with the Global Action for
Trans* Equality (GATE) in NYC during CSW on Monday, March 16th. In this
session a panel of Justus Eisfeld (GATE), Marama Pala (ICW/Global
Indigenous Working Group on HIV), Teresia Njoki Otieno (ICW), Karen Stamm,
Co-founder of Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA) and moderated by
Jessica Whitbread (ICW) engaged in a community dialogue to discuss cross
movement experiences with reproductive justice with audience members. This
event was at the same time as a dynamic presentation at Concordia
University in Montreal, Canada titled *Non-Negotiable. My Body! My Rights!:
A dialogue on resistance and regulation in the daily lives of women living
with HIV.*

  Teresia Njoki Otieno spoke on the *High Level Session: Realizing the
rights of marginalized and disadvantaged women and girls*. The panel
highlighted ways in which particular groups of women are tackling multiple
forms of discrimination and working toward change through advocacy,
awareness raising, and interventions. Teresia spoke to a packed room that
was also attended by many government representatives.

  ICW co-hosted a session in the UN Building on March 18th during CSW that
further drove our agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for
women living with HIV. This session titled *Forced and Coerced
Sterilization: A global violation of the human rights of marginalized women
and transgender people*featured panel moderator: Malayah Harper, Chief,
Gender Equality and Diversity Division, UNAIDS with panelists included:
Teresia Njoki Otieno, ICW, Justus Eisfeld, GATE, Andrea Parra, Action
Program for Equality and Social Inclusion (PAIIS), Camila Gianella, Centre
on Law & Social Transformation, and Lydia Guterman, past manager of the
Campaign to Stop Torture in Healthcare. Advocates working on issues of
forced and coerced sterilization and forced contraception have long
recognized a need to break down the silos of groups working to end this
practice and build solidarity among populations of women experiencing
forced and coerced sterilization with the goal of sharing strategies and
sparking collaborative efforts. There is an urgent need to gather and
address the lack of progress on ending this practice in the light of global
awareness of the problem impacting diverse communities of women and to
scale-up efforts to address this critical human rights violation

*UNAIDS hosted a Strategy Consultation Meeting in NYC* which was attended
by Jessica Whitbread and L’Orangelis Thomas (CYWAG). ICW was vocal about
the need for women and girls to be at the forefront of the HIV response and
UNAIDS needs to take a bold stance on human rights and create a clear plan
of action with allocated resources.

*UNAIDS hosted a* *Breakfast Session: Fast-tracking the end of AIDS among
Women and Girls. “Stock take on where we are and the way forward on HIV,
SRHR and the Means of Implementation” *where Marama Pala spoke about the
leadership of women living with HIV and the importance of women and HIV
being included in the SDGs.

  *Global Fund had a Community Consultation* was attended by Marama Pala,
Olena Stryzak, Lillian Mworeko, and Lydia Mungherera, who represented three
different Global Fund regions, inclusive of the Global voice through the
ICW International Steering Committee Members. The five strategic goals were
briefly discussed with emphasis on the indicators and the outcomes that
were analysed and feedback was given.
           ICW in Action

This month the *Members Advocacy Wor*kshop focused on TB and HIV
co-infection in women. ICW members and staff participated in this workshop
led by Annabel Baddeley from the World Health Organization. Following this
workshop ICW released a statement
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for World TB Day on March 24th. For more information please contact Jessica
at communityrelations at iamicw.org.

  *ICW launched its weekly Global Fund Newsletter updates during the month
of March. *These updates are so that ICW members in all regions can have
the most up to date information on Global Fund processes and

               In The Media

   - ICW release on World TB Day
http://www.iamicw.org/news-and-media/icw-global-news/icw-call-to-action-on-world-tb-day

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   - ICW statement on International Women’s Day
http://www.iamicw.org/news-and-media/icw-global-news/international-women-s-day-2015-call-to-action

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   - ICW joint letter with GNP+ to President Kenyatta
http://www.iamicw.org/news-and-media/icw-global-news/icw-gnp-letter-to-president-kenyatta

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   - The Body, *Can Christian Ethics Take Down Stigma*?
http://www.thebody.com/content/75538/can-christian-ethics-take-down-stigma-and-bias-aga.html

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Working Group call

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been involved with in the first quarter. This includes CSW, Post 2015
engagement, ICPD, Global Fund and UNAIDS advocating. Please join us at 8am
(NYC)/ 3pm (Nairobi). To join the call please contact Velvine at
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10th June, 2015 will be a special presentation on Criminalization of HIV
disclosure, exposure and transmission by the Canadian HIV Legal Network
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             IAS Pathogens Conference 2015 in Vancouver, Canada

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           This Month's Profile

*Name:* Helena Nangombe

*Region:* Southern Africa (Namibia)

*What She Does:* I am a women living with HIV and advocator who wants to
make sure the world that women are capable of changing the world and make
is safer place for all.

*Who She Is:* Advocating for young women and girls living with HIV. I am a
wife and mother who like to travel and work in the community.

*Why is ICW important:* ICW is a space for women living with HIV to make
sure that their voice are gone out and heard, it is space for us to
understand each other. ICW has been advocating the women to start gaining
equal rights and opportunities for women, and allowing women to have
control over their lives and bodies. At a time when women are sexualized
and objectified in so many cultures, feminism is also about empowering
women and young girls, it has really opened doors to women to get in the
space and have a say. Most women were part of force sterilization, which is
not fair for women because i might be HIV+ but still have full right to my
body.

You know ICW gave me the power to start the newly born network for young
women and girls it is under registration under the ministry of health in
Namibia called the Young women's Empowerment Network (YMEN).
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*Asia Pacific*

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Marvelous Mucenje, Canada
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