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Title Grassroots Women and Local Authorities Partner to Fight AIDS in Africa Day / Time Wednesday, June 21st / 16:30 - 18:30 Room Oceanview 3/4 Event Description This event will bring together grassroots women from home-based care groups responding to AIDS in cities throughout Africa with local authorities to share their practices on partnering in creating a more effective response to AIDS. In poor urban environments where public services for the sick do not exist, where hospitals are completely full and, even if they weren’t, most HIV-positive people are too poor to get to them, grassroots women’s groups are implementing programs in home-based care and orphan care, as well as engaging in micro-credit and collective enterprises to support their AIDS work. Partnerships with mayors and local authorities, who create the context in which they work, make their work easier. By partnering with grassroots women to facilitate their anti-AIDS work, mayors are improving their cities by supporting some of their greatest assets — committed and empowered women. Session Language English French Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Florence Enyogu, Uganda Community-Based Association for Child Welfare Ann Wanjiru, GROOTS Kenya Margaret Jobita, AMICAALL Kenya   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) consolidated_policy_priorities_100003.doc L2L_Concept_100003.doc 2006_AIDS_Campaign_100003.doc Host Organization Huairou Commission - HIV/AIDS Campaign with GROOTS Africa Host Organization Description Established in 1995 at the 4th World Conference on Women, the Huairou Commission is a unique experiment in global democracy. Driven by grassroots women's organizations from around the world, this network promotes partnership with those who support the belief that it is in the best interest of local and international communities for grassroots women to be full partners in sustainable development. The Huairou Commission works thematically on campaigns in HIV/AIDS, Disaster, Governance, Land and Housing and Peace Building with six anchoring networks - Asian Women and Shelter Network (AWAS), GROOTS International, Habitat International Coalition - Women and Shelter Network (HIC-WAS), Women and Habitat (LAC), International Council of Women and Women and Cities International. Website (Organizer and partners) www.huairou.org www.amicaall.org www.cities-localgovernments.org/uclg www.unhabitat.org

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