International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW Global)

The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) is the only global network by and for women living with HIV. ICW was established in 1992 by women living with HIV activists, as a response to the consistent silencing and marginalizing of the concerns of women living with HIV within the HIV response. The ICW network has been at the forefront of the feminist HIV response ensuring that women living with HIV are at the center of responses to HIV and AIDS since its inception. ICW is the voice and representation of women living with HIV, in all our diversity. ICW has networks in 120 countries and works through 10 regional networks in Asia Pacific, Caribbean, Central Africa, East Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America, Southern Africa, and West Africa and the Chapter of Young Women and Girls (CYWAG). In all our work, it is the grassroots voices, experiences of women living with HIV, our daily struggles and lived realities that inform and shape the ICW agenda.