Understanding Poverty & HIV From An Intersectional Feminist Perspective

For IWD 2024, ATHENA Network, in partnership with UNAIDS and UN Women,  co-hosted a virtual intergenerational dialogue. The conversation spotlighted the gendered implications and intersections between poverty, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and other structural drivers of gender inequality. We wanted to explore how the feminist movement can play a role in pushing for policies and practices that uplift women's rights and advance a gender-transformative HIV response.The conversation unpacked how feminists from Eastern and Southern Africa are contending with the trends and conspiring across generations in what we see as the "fourth wave" of feminist organizing. We reflected on input from young feminists from the Western and Central Africa region for cross-regional cross-pollination. Young feminists Christina Mwakisole, Zoe Nakamba, Nantaba Shamirah Faith, Welisane Maagbor and Ngozichukwu Chukwuma were in dialogue with Anne Githuku-Shongwe, the Regional Director for UNAIDS East and Southern Africa, who has worked regionally and globally with technical experts on HIV programming through a gender lens. Keep up to date with ATHENA via...Our websiteFacebookInstagramTwitter