HIV Leadership Through Accountability

Programmes

Achieving universal access to HIV treatment, care and prevention requires a coordinated response that involves multiple and diverse stakeholders. Civil society, including people living with HIV (PLHIV) networks, can play a critical role in the realisation of national and international targets. Through its work with communities, civil society can provide a unique perspective on the barriers to accessing services and offer evidence-based advocacy and recommendations about what must be done to remove these barriers.

The HIV Leadership through Accountability programme is a collaboration between the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+), the World AIDS Campaign (WAC), national networks of PLHIV and national Civil Society platforms. The programme is funded by UK DfID and combines specific HIV mapping tools, national AIDS campaigns and targeted advocacy for Universal Access. Here you can access the concept note of the programme .

The programme will run for five years and involve 15 countries in total. Within each country, over a two-year period, the national network of people living with HIV will implement tools by and for PLHIV, elaborated by GNP+ and its partners, aiming at strengthening the evidence on four key areas:

Stigma and discrimination (The People Living with HIV Stigma Index)

The level of involvement of people living with HIV (The GIPA Report Card)

Documenting and analysing current experiences in criminalisation of HIV transmission (The Global Criminalisation Scan)

Documenting and analysing human rights violations against PLHIV (Human Rights Count!)

In addition to the four mapping tools, Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of PLHIV: A Guidance Package will support PLHIV networks to engage in national processes for the development and/or adaptation of sexual and reproductive health services.

Leadership through Accountability at AIDS2010

Monday, 26 July 2010 00:00

During the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, AIDS2010, the HIV Leadership through Accountability programme presented results from the research done in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. The National PLHIV networks of these countries had six abstracts accepted to be presented during the conference. In addition, representatives from the national networks of PLHIV from Kenya (NEPHAK) and Zambia (NZP+) present in Vienna were asked to speak at related sessions, workshops and satellites.

Campaigning, Advocacy and Lobbying Skills Exchange and Knowledge Building Workshops

Wednesday, 09 June 2010 00:00

Three in-country campaigning, advocacy and lobbying skills exchange and knowledge building workshops were successfully held in Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia between March and June 2010. The workshops were sponsored by UNDP and organised in partnership with the national networks of people living with HIV and Civil Society from within each country.

Joint Planning and Review Meeting

Tuesday, 09 February 2010 00:00

A joint HIV Leadership through Accountability Planning and Review Meeting was held in Cape Town on 25 - 28 January 2010. The meeting brought together representatives from 6 national networks of PLHIV (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia) as well as GNP+ and WAC. All participants shared their organisational aims and goals and their existing programmes and work.

Moldova - GNP+ and League of People Living with HIV of Moldova collaboration

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:07

GNP+ and the League of People Living with HIV of Moldova (national PLHIV network) held a meeting on 20 October 2009 in Chisinau, Moldova. The two organizations agreed to collaborate on the “HIV Leadership through Accountability programme” in Moldova for the period of 2010 to 2011. This work will include national rollout of five HIV mapping tools for and by PLHIV: GIPA Report Card, Global Criminalisation Scan, PLHIV Stigma Index, Human Rights Count! and SRHR of PLHIV Guidance Package.

Experiences from Kenya and Zambia

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:04

GNP+ held a programme liaison meeting with World AIDS Campaign and the focal points from national PLHIV networks of Kenya (NEPHAK) and Zambia (NZP+) on 27-28 October 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. Programme partners discussed the progress of programme implementation, lessons learned and plan of action to convert evidence to advocacy at country level. Further discussions will be held to identify the way forward and linkages with civil society in the advocacy work in these countries for 2010 and beyond.