Historical Moment at CSW

Published on 2010-02-28 by Ilze Smit

Tomorrow it will start; the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women with the review of Beijing +15, more than 7000 NGO participants registered and a UN building under reconstruction. At this historical moment UAFC Joint Programming will host together with CHANGE, Brazilian Government and Danish Government a session about Universal Access to Female Condom at the 1^st of March.

I hope that the Brazilian Minister of Women Emancipation Nilcea Freire, President of the International Womens Health Coalition Adrienne Germain, the Danish Ambassador Carsten Staur and Diretor of the Womens Action Group Edinah Masiyiwa will make a difference with their speeches to the government delegations. I know for sure that we could not have better advocates for our goal making female condoms accessible for all.

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UAFC lobby paper

UAFC has developed a profound advocacy strategy in order to achieve acces to female condoms for all. For background on this strategy and to strengthen your own lobby activities you have access to this paper.

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Breaking down the barriers!

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Ilze Smit of UAFC Joint Programme presented the session Female Condom Programming and Advocacy: Braking down the Barriers! at the NGO Forum ICPD+15.

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Trainings in Rwanda

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"In our daily work in HIV prevention and even in our sexual and reproductive life sessions with potential users, in trainings and advocay, we talk about female condoms as you can see in these photos. I'm pushing to include FC in our major advocay themes. It recently has been included in the Rwanda National NGO forum on AIDS for the four year strategic plan (2009/2012)," says Fortunée Twiyubahe from ACORD/Oxfam International in Rwanda.

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Part of our new website is the revolutionary knowledge base. This is a repository of concepts related to the main theme of UAFC, the female condom. This repository is organized according to themes, geographic location and time. We invite you to start exploring our knowledge base.

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ACMS Website

In Cameroon the Association Camerounaise pour le Marketing (ACMS) works on making Female Condoms available to a large usersgroup. ACMS has its own website, with which it reaches especially young people.

Interview with Victoria Archibong, SFH

"I believe the introduction of the male condoms was relatively easier. This could be because it was easier to target men as the “dominant” party in relationships and the ones who will wear the condoms. There was also a lot of support from donors and IPs. The female condom is regarded more as a “woman thing”. Some men may feel threatened as the female condom will empower women in demonstrating their sexual and reproductive health rights. For Female condom programming, programmers have to be more creative and strategic."

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