In response to the crisis caused by the USAID and PEPFAR funding freezes and continuing uncertainty about the future of the HIV response, ICW networks from around the world and our partners ATHENA Network PAPWAC-Zimbabwe, African Women’s Prevention Community Accountability Board, WHRIN, Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe, Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA) and Frontline AIDS launched a rapid assessment survey in our networks to fill a gap in gendered analysis of the crisis and understand the ways in which this crisis was unfolding in the lives and communities of our members. In a short window of time, our survey, which was launched in 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic), received 330 responses from women living with HIV including women from key populations – transwomen sex workers and women who use drugs, in 44 countries from Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, EECA, and MENA.
This report presents these early impacts and we intend to leave the survey open for additional monitoring over time. The countries represented in the survey responses include a powerful cross section of diverse countries around the world that have been impacted by the freeze – Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eswatini, Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
