Welcome to the Women in Europe and Central Asia website on HIV and related women's issues 


STOP PRESS: Please sign the petition to Save the Global Fund. Click here to read, sign and forward to your friends. It only takes 2 minutes and millions will thank you.

On this site we also have a letter to the G8 leaders, which we would be so glad if you would sign, outlining our concerns in more detail. Please, if you have another 2 minutes read and sign this too!

To read about  our involvement in the International AIDS Conference in Rome, July 2011, go to the Rome 2011 tab.

To read about preparations for the International AIDS Conference in Washington, AIDS 2012 and on-going work on SRR and HIV linkages, please also visit the ATHENA Network website. The ATHENA Network is the coordinating agency of the Women's Networking Zone.



This Website


This website, launched in January 2010, is primarily - but not exclusively - for women across Europe and Central Asia who are working on sexual and reproductive health issues affecting women and girls across this region. The website is designed to be a multi-lingual website, to enable women from the many different language groups across the region to share with one another the issues we face, the visions we hold and the work we are all doing to make these visions a reality.

Leading on from our landmark meeting held in Vienna, 30 October - 1 November 2009, we planned together for the International AIDS Conference held in Vienna in July 2010 - and we also plan to work together across the region in the future. At the first meeting in Vienna, women from the following countries attended:

Albania, Armenia, Austria, France, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Ivory Coast, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia.

The meeting was kindly hosted by AIDSHilfe Vienna and was mainly funded by Ford Foundation (through the Institute of International Education) and IPPF. Some participants were funded through their own sources.

If you want to read more about the meeting and how inspirational it was you can click here to read the blog from Silvia, one of the great participants.

To read more about the meeting and our decisions made there to form WECARe+ click here and also visit other pages of this website.

Please also read about our survey of women living with HIV across the region on the relevant tab.

Please come back to this webpage soon. We will be adding to it regularly.

About Vienna, July 2010; the High Level Meeting June 2011 and Rome 2011

You can read about our engagement with these events on relevant tabs on this site 

With many many thanks to all the help of those who have kindly volunteered  their on-going time to support us with translation of this website.

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