There we were in the middle of war scarred Freetown, Sierra Leone discussing women’s rights and HIV & AIDS in West Africa. The meeting convened by ActionAid International (AAI) and The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), brought together women living with HIV & AIDS and other activists from 7 countries in West Africa (Liberia, Nigeria, […]

Today I visited two of our grantees, Women Unite Against Aids in Ghana (WUAGG) and the Nana Yaa Memorial Reproductive Health Centre. WUAAG describes its vision as enabling women infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to live a life of dignity in a supportive and enabling environment. It was a real privilege to be able to […]

‘It is because of poor marginalised women that AWDF exists’. Those were the words of Bisi Adeleye- Fayemi in speaking to her staff about the plight of the female Liberian refugees who had been arrested after several high profile demonstrations in Ghana. In AWDF’s headquarters in Ghana we recently had a visit from a delegation […]