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High Level Female condom side-event at CSW

Denmark, Brazil, Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme and Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) will cordially co-sponsor an event on the importance of universal access to female condoms during the first week of the 54th Commission of the Status of Women (CSW). This session will create an opportunity for government delegations and advocates from the global South and North to exchange information and discuss possibilities to strengthen support for the female condom and female condom programming at the CSW.

Date:                     Monday, March 1, 2010
Time meeting:        5:00 to 6:00 pm

It will be an interactive session on how to make female condoms more accessible for women around the world. Listen to the experiences from Brazil presented by the Minister of the Special Secretariat for Policies for Women Nilcea Freire, and hear how Women’s Action Group Zimbabwe has paved the way for Zimbabwean women’s use of female condoms. Join also the discussion on the role of government delegations and NGO’s in promoting female condoms, lead by Adrienne Germain of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC). She will focus on identifying strategies and concrete messages to help raise the visibility of female condoms at the CSW.

For more information, please contact: info@condoms4all.com

Advocacy statement in various languages:

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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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Knowledge base live

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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