Welcome to the Women in Europe and Central Asia website on HIV and related women's issues

You can download the Official Programme for the Women's Networking Zone of the Vienna International AIDS Conference 2010  here.

Please click on the link to download our Women and HIV 2010 guide.

Please download the flyer for the Women Networking Zone, here

The Women’s Networking Zone at the Vienna Conference was coordinated by the ATHENA Network.
Celebrating 10 years of parallel women’s fora.


This Website


This website, launched in January 2010, is primarily - but not exclusively - for women across Europe and Central Asia who are working on sexual and reproductive health issues affecting women and girls across this region. The website is designed to be a multi-lingual website, to enable women from the many different language groups across the region to share with one another the issues we face, the visions we hold and the work we are all doing to make these visions a reality.

Leading on from our landmark meeting held in Vienna, 30 October - 1 November 2009, we planned together for the International AIDS Conference held in Vienna in July 2010 - and we also plan to work together across the region beyond this conference. At the first meeting in Vienna, women from the following countries attended:

Albania Armenia Austria France Germany Kyrgyzstan Italy Ivory Coast Latvia Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia South Africa Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United States Zambia.

The meeting was kindly hosted by AIDSHilfe Vienna and was mainly funded by Ford Foundation (through the Institute of International Education) and IPPF. Some participants were funded through their own sources.

If you want to read more about the meeting and how inspirational it was you can click here to read the blog from Silvia, one of the great participants.

To read more about the meeting and our decisions made there to form WECARe+ click here and also visit other pages of this website.

Please come back to this webpage soon. We will be adding to it regularly.

About the International AIDS Conference, Vienna, July 2010

You can read all about this conference at the official site: http://www.aids2010.org/

Please also look at other pages on this website which relate our achievements at the conference and how you can get involved in our future efforts. Welcome!

With many many thanks to all the help of those who have kindly volunteered  their on-going time to support us with translation of this website.

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