Women Know What Works

Pre-conference 13 July 2PM–6PM

IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science
Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda

This afternoon pre-conference will bring together a diversity of voices of women living with HIV from around the world as well as international experts to focus on achievements in HIV prevention, treatment and care for women living with HIV. You will hear about sexual and reproductive health and rights in women living with HIV, experiences from women living with HIV in different regions and contexts, and also how HIV affects young women, trans women and sex workers.

”Women Know What Works” is not just a call to action, it is a reminder to the global community that women are at the centre of the global HIV and AIDS response – it is time to be heard, time to be recognised, because women know what works.

Register for the pre-conference at www.events.humanitix.com/wkww2025
(entrance to the pre-conference is free of charge for all registered delegates to the IAS conference but registration is required for participation to be guaranteed).

The pre-conference is hosted by Posithiva Gruppen and proudly supported by Gilead Sciences.

Preliminary programme

  • 14:00: Welcome notes
    Larkin Callaghan, Gilead, United States
    Ophelia Haanyama, Posithiva Gruppen, Sweden
  • 14:06: Welcome message
    Ambassador and/or ministers
  • 14:13: Ending gender inequity in HIV: Community Insights
    Susan Cole, FRSA, UK
  • 14:28: Science and Sisterhood: Demanding a Gender-Transformative HIV Response rooted in women’s lived experiences and leadership
    Charity Mkona, ICW Global, Malawi
  • 14:45: Trans Women with HIV and the Power of Collective Resistance
    Erika Castellanos, GATE, Netherlands
  • 14:55: Effects on HIV and sex work after the Trump stop order in Zimbabwe
    Gumisayi Bonzo, Trans Smart Trust, Zimbabwe
  • 15:09: Q&A session
    With the previous four speakers, moderated by Larkin Callaghan
  • 15:31: Young women living with HIV [title to be confirmed]
    Maximina Jokonya, Y+ Global, Zimbabwe
  • 15:41 Empowering teen mothers living with HIV: stories of strength, stigma, and support in Rwanda
    Rosine Izabayo, IMRO Rwanda, Rwanda
  • 15:55 Movie screening: Strong together: HIV, pregnancy and peer support
    Posithiva Gruppen’s «3P – Positive Pregnancy Peers» project
  • 16:15: BREAK
  • 16:47 Breastfeeding and HIV between standards and human rights
    Mariana Iacono, ICW Global, Argentina
  • 17:00 Parenting [title to be confirmed]
    Jessica Whitbread, HIV Science as Art, United States
  • 17:14: Q&A session
    With the previous four speakers, moderated by Larkin Callaghan
  • 17:29: Summary reflections
    Larkin Callaghan, Gilead, United States
  • 17:34: Musical performance
    Mireille Mukakigeli, Rwanda
  • 17:41: Thanks and other notes
    Larkin Callaghan, Gilead, United States
    Ophelia Haanyama, Posithiva Gruppen, Sweden

 

Learn more about the IAS conference at www.iasociety.org/conferences/ias2025

 

Individual grants

Posithiva Gruppen (PG) is providing a limited number of individual grants for people living with or affected by HIV who want to attend the Women Know What Works pre-conference. We especially encourage key populations and women living with HIV from low- and middle-income countries to apply for this grant. The grant consists of 100 USD as well as a day pass giving access to all the IAS pre-conferences on the 13th of July (including the Women Know What Works pre-conference).

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