With funding from DANIDA, SWAA has undertaken a one-year intensive promotion of the female condom use in five selected regions namely Ashanti, Eastern, Western Central and Volta.
These regions were selected at random since a promotion had already been done on a national scale and this second phase being an intensive promotion was concentrated in the southern half of the country due to logistic constraints.
This project, which started in July 2002, aimed at contributing to the reduction in the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS on women through the promotion of the use of the female condom to enhance women’s reproductive health rights.
SWAA recently embarked on Female Condom promotion in the Greater Accra Region with funding from the Ghana AIDS Commission. The aim of this programme was to train at least thousand people in advocacy and the use of the female condom.
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The Johannesburg Position on HIV/AIDS and Women’s and Girls Rights in Africa
(April 2006)
We African women including HIV positive women, women’s rights activists, feminists, Scholars, professionals, community workers and policy makers from the African continent participating in the African Women’s Regional Consultation on Women’s and rights and HIV/AIDS in Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 6-7, 2006.
At the end of the programme this was the conclusion made by the participants:
We, African women are profoundly concerned and aggrieved that it has taken so long for governments to fully appreciate the centrality of African women’s rights and voices in dealing with HIV/AIDS, which is one of the greatest threats to our collective existence as a people and the continent.
As African women, we demand meaningful participation and involvement in institutions and processes that shall guide the global responses that shall guide the global response to HIV/AIDS. As women of Africa, we fully commit ourselves to working with our heads of state and government and other stakeholders to mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on African women and girls, the continent and the world. Women’s rights are not negotiable.
The
women and girls of Africa deserve more. The time
to act is now!
SWAA
COMFORTS FUND FOR WOMEN
As part of the DANIDA project carried out in 2002, a comfort fund was established through collaboration with the Fevers Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra to assist people living with HIV/AIDS.
The fund was set up for Korle-Bu Fevers unit that is a leading treatment and care centre in Ghana where majority of the patients are women.
The comfort fund is used for basic medicine and related needs for women living with HIV/AIDS. It is administered by the hospital staff and monitored by SWAA.
It also provides counseling services and financial support for hospital bills for them.
SWAA was privileged to have an advocacy meeting with the First
Lady of Ghana.
to explain the plight of OVC and the need to led their support.
With funding from DANIDA, SWAA has undertaken a one-year intensive promotion of the female condom use in five selected regions namely Ashanti, Eastern, Western Central and Volta.
As part of the DANIDA project carried out in 2002, a comfort fund was established through collaboration with the Fevers Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra to assist people living with HIV/AIDS.
