The International Community of Women living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) is a regional advocacy network and membership-based organization run by and for HIV positive women. The regional network has 5 Chapter countries; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. Our Vision is: holistic health & rights for women and girls living with HIV in their diversity where they thrive and live dignified lives. Our Mission is holistic health & rights for women and girls living with HIV through: Meaningful Involvement, Capacity building, Strategic Partnerships and Advocacy
With support from ViiV Healthcare Positive Action, the International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa is scheduled to implement a project titled “Building Self-Resilience among AGYW Living with HIV to fight self-stigma in Uganda and Burundi. The Project is informed by the recent evidence from ICWEA’s program intervention that demonstrated the looming and increasing self-stigma among AGYW living with HIV.
This project will be targeting Adolescent girls and young women living with HIV because they are highly vulnerable to all forms of human rights violations (including GBV among others; have suffered the dare consequences of the HIV epidemic; and the current settings (home, community, and institutional) are not giving enough support for their survival instead promoting all forms of stigma and therefore the need for self-resilience among the affected community
This tool will be used in the health facilities by health workers to identify the AGWY who are facing self-stigma. The persons to be interviewed should be informed that their participation is voluntary and all information provided will be treated with maximum confidentiality. The identified AGYW who are facing self-stigma will be supported to outgrow self-stigma using young women dialogue model and transformative leadership.
