'We are changing your regimen to the triple therapy Dolutegravir (DTG).' That is the only information I got from my health care provider about my new treatment regimen. I protested this decision as I believed I had the right to make an informed choice regarding my health, or at least get more information. The only … Continue reading My woes with DTG, where is my right to choice?
Author: Making Waves Network
A People’s Vaccine is A Just World
by Lucy Wanjiku Njenga The just world I long to live in is where I am as important as the next person, not on the basis of where I was born or where I live. A just world is a safe world with free and accessible COVID-19 Vaccine. It has been a whole year of … Continue reading A People’s Vaccine is A Just World
ZIMBABWE NATIONAL GENDER AND HIV TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP, STANDING TOGETHER AS ONE
Fractals, mushrooms, rhizomes and scaling up
Fiona Hale, March 25 2021 This is a story of some conversations and reflections within the Making Waves collective in 2020. I wrote it in September 2020, but it's taken me a while to share it. And although I’m writing it, it’s all about how people relate to each other, and none of the ideas … Continue reading Fractals, mushrooms, rhizomes and scaling up
International Women’s Day 2021
This #IWD, like every day, women, girls and gender diverse people everywhere will be #makingwaves in big and small ways, addressing #HIV #SRHR #VAWG #GBV, making the world a better place for all of us. Women and girls living with HIV who identify as sex workers, women who use drugs, trans women, queer women or … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2021
#ConfinedbyCovid: women and girls, HIV and SRHR. The challenges, the responses, and calls to action
On January 27 2021, ITPC, Salamander Trust and Making Waves held a webinar to talk about the findings of community-led research on the impact of Covid-19 on women and girls living with and affected by HIV, including the impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Four of the researchers, Joyce Ouma (Kenya), Jacquelyne Alesi … Continue reading #ConfinedbyCovid: women and girls, HIV and SRHR. The challenges, the responses, and calls to action
Obstetric violence, respectful maternity care, and women and adolescent girls living with HIV – Upholding our SRHR as essential during COVID-19 and beyond
December 2020 by Making Waves The impact of COVID-19 on obstetric violence COVID-19 has caused massive global upheaval, including to HIV and sexual and reproductive health services. Disruptions to maternity care services due to COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries over 6 months were predicted in early estimates to cause 12,200 - 56,700 additional maternal … Continue reading Obstetric violence, respectful maternity care, and women and adolescent girls living with HIV – Upholding our SRHR as essential during COVID-19 and beyond
#16daysofActivism2020
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we join with sisters and friends around the world to say - again - enough is enough. This #16DaysOfActivism, in this year of COVID-19, lockdowns, curfews and movement restrictions, violence against women and girls in all our diversities is a pandemic, and it … Continue reading #16daysofActivism2020
Gender transformative approaches, power inequalities, and a checklist for addressing these
Making Waves members and colleagues in other organisations recently wrote about the importance of gender-transformative approaches in the context of the current pandemic, asking Why is gender mainstreaming so vital right now? In this article, we outlined some of the problems caused for women, girls and gender-diverse people by pandemic responses that are not gendered. … Continue reading Gender transformative approaches, power inequalities, and a checklist for addressing these
Your feedback welcome! A draft set of feminist funding calls for action
Making Waves was pleased to be part of the July 2020 Women's Networking Zone session on funding for organisations led by women and girls working on HIV prevention and response. In that session, participants agreed that it is totally unacceptable that only 0.5% of international aid for gender equality goes directly to Southern women’s organisations. … Continue reading Your feedback welcome! A draft set of feminist funding calls for action
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