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Subject:	Fwd: Press Release: GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa gathers women leaders to advance women’s empowerment
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	Dear All FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: beatrice savadye Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:46 AM Subject: Press Release: GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa gathers women leaders to advance womens empowerment To: Mawethu Zita Hie Mawethu I hope i find you well. Are you able to share this press release on GYCA wire? Have a great day Beatrice ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Partners Zimbabwe To: Partners Zimbabwe Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012, 10:11 Subject: [partnerszimbabwe] Press Release: GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa gathers women leaders to advance womens empowerment Press Release: GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa gathers women leaders to advance womens empowerment and gender equality through HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights responses UNAIDS 24 May 2012 ********** HARARE Women parliamentarians, leading African women entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, and development partners from Africa and beyond are gathering in Zimbabwes capital over the next two days for the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa High Level Meeting. The meeting will provide a strategic political platform to accelerate game-changing approaches to HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health and rights responses for women and girls. More than 300 participants are expected to attend and address many of the key issues affecting young women and girls in Africa, such as eliminating new HIV infections among children, keeping mothers alive and maternal and child health. Participants are also expected to discuss resource mobilisation, sustainable financing and accountability. The meeting will result in the Harare Call for Action to advance womens empowerment and gender equality through HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights responses. To achieve the vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, it is critical to recognise women and girls as key agents in making this vision a realitysociety has to invest in the health of women and girls, said Honourable Thokozani Khupe, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe and President of the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa. In Africa, women and girls carry a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic, constituting 59 percent of all people living with HIV. The prevailing gender inequalities, including gender-based violence among other factors, increase womens and girls risk of HIV infection. This has made it difficult to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular MDGs 3 (gender equality), 4 (child health), 5 (maternal health), and 6 (HIV). The African Unions Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) is one such initiative in support of the MDGs, specifically addressing the reduction of maternal mortality in Africa. Empowering women and girls to protect themselves against HIV infection and gender-based violence is a non-negotiable in the AIDS response. Yet, many countries are not delivering the results needed to achieve the MDGs 3, 4, 5 and 6, said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. Platforms such as the GlobalPOWER Women Network mobilise women leaders to hold governments accountable to the commitments they made on women and girls. In line with the foregoing, H.E. Dr. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission underlined, Leadership at country level must work to deliver the commitment made over the years, which appear more relevant today than ever before. Synergies should be created between the several hitherto vertical interventions, especially between HIV programmes and those of Sexual and Reproductive health said The aim of the GlobalPOWER Women Network is to establish networks among women leaders and parliamentarians to share experiences and approaches to advance gender equality and womens empowerment. For more information visit the official website at www.globalpowerwomenafricanetwork.org [END] Contact GlobalPOWER \| Addelis Sibutha \| tel. +263 4 701 617 \| addelis (at) yahoo.com African Union \| Dr. Janet Byaruhanga \| tel. + 251 11 551 77 00 \| byaruhangaj (at) africa-union.org UNAIDS Harare \| Tawanda Chisango \| tel. + 263 4 338 836 - 41 \| chisangot (at) unaids.org GlobalPOWER® Women Network Africa is a partnership of women elected and appointed representatives which seeks to advance gender equality and women's empowerment. GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa promotes discussion of accelerated action for women empowerment and gender equality in the area of HIV and Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights, in Africa, focusing on the vulnerability of girls and young women. African Union The African Union spearheads Africas development and integration in close collaboration with African Union Member States, the Regional Economic Communities and African citizens. AU Vision An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arena. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative United Nations partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. Learn more at www.unaids.org. UNAIDS vision: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths On the first day of the Harare high-level meeting, the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa will be officially launched. The idea to create an Africa-specific GlobalPOWER Women Network stemmed from a September 2010 meeting in Washington, DC that saw prominent African female decision-makers come together alongside their U.S. peers to discuss how to accelerate the implementation of the UNAIDS Agenda for Women and Girls. Online at: http://www.safaids.net/content/press-release-globalpower-women-network-africa-gathers-women-leaders-advance-women%E2%80%99s-empower --------- Stay Connected - Speak Your World! A posting from Partners Zimbabwe eForum ( partnerszimbabwe (at) eforums.healthdev.org) - To submit a posting, send to: partnerszimbabwe (at) eforums.healthdev.org - For anonymous postings, add the word "anon" to the subject line - To join, send a blank message to: join-partnerszimbabwe (at) eforums.healthdev.org - To leave, send a blank email to: leave-partnerszimbabwe (at) eforums.healthdev.org - To access discussion archives: www.healthdev.org/eforums/partnerszimbabwe You are currently subscribed to Partners Zimbabwe eForum as: beatricesavadye (at) yahoo.co.uk --------- Partners Zimbabwe is a national eForum on HIV & AIDS and related health and development issues in Zimbabwe. 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Reproduction welcomed provided ZAN, HDN, SAfAIDS, The Centre, ZNNP+ and WASN are informed of usage and source is cited as follows: Partners Zimbabwe eForum 2010: www.healthdev.org/partnerszimbabwe -- Mawethu Zita Regional Focal Point for Southern Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS Fax to email: 0865529161 Cell: 0725171718 Skype:mae2_zita mawethu (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org www.tigweb.org Profile: http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/mawethuzita GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 6, 500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 173 countries world-wide. GYCA'smission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers. "Dreams need a place where no boundaries exist, and joy likes to be in a space where God is the only limit. Please continue to dream and dream BIG" by Douglas Pagels

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