Who We Are

ICW North America is a regional network of ICW Global that is accountable to its membership of women living with HIV in Canada and the United States. ICW NA shares the global vision of a world where all women living with HIV live free of gender oppression, realizing and claiming our full rights inclusive of sexual, reproductive, legal, social, economic and health right. ICW NA exists to lead efforts to secure and improve the quality of life for women living with HIV in North America. We do this by mobilizing, organizing, advocating, mentoring, and raising consciousness on the issues and policies that directly affect our lives.

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  HISTORY

  Established in 1992 by women living with HIV in response to the consistent silencing and marginalizing of the concerns of women living with HIV.
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  TODAY

  Today, over 20 years later, ICW continues to be the only network run by and for women living with HIV. We work in 120 countries, through 10 regional networks.
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  FUTURE

  The way forward.
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  VISION AND MISSION

  How we see the future and what we undertake to do about getting there.
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  OUR VALUES

  Regardless of culture, age, religion, sexuality, disability, social or economic status, class or race, all members are at the core of our policies.
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  PURPOSE AND ETHOS

  As long we continue to be marginalized, ICW will remain at the forefront of the struggle for the rights of all women and living with HIV.

How We Work

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  GOVERNANCE

  How our organization is governed.
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  NETWORK OF REGIONS

  We are a network of individual women living with HIV, but we have a shared, collective agenda and work collaboratively at the local, national, regional and global levels.