Women's sector consultation on the HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011
*Update: 3 August 2007*
On 18th July, the SANAC women’s sector organised a meeting of the extended reference group formed at the Women’s Sector Summit in March 2007. The purpose of the meeting was to update the group on SANAC activities so far, plan how the women’s sector will mobilise around the NSP and to nominate women’s sector representatives to various SANAC structures. Read more
Click here to read the minutes of the meeting
Click here for more information about the SANAC structure
*Update: 7 May 2007*
At a SANAC meeting on April 30th 2007, the National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS and STIs (2007-2011) was formally adopted and the nominations of the women's sector representatives -
- Sipho Mtati, Secretary General of the Treatment Action Campaign,
- Dr Natalya Dinat, Project Manager of WITS Palliative Care; and
- Dr Rachel Jewkes, Director of the Medical Research Council's Gender and Health Unit - were confirmed.
Work will now begin on the issues discussed at the March consultation and the elected representatives will contact members of the reference group to discuss the way forward. In the meantime, funds are being sought to produce a report from the March consultation. Presentations and inputs are being collected and will shortly be available through the Women'sNet website.
Click here to view Helen Rees' presentation at the March consultation
Click here to view the HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2007-2011
Background
The Women's Sector Consultation on the National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS and STIs took place fr om 8-9 March 2007. Three representatives were elected to represent the women's sector on the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC):
- Sipho Mtati, Secretary General of the Treatment Action Campaign
- Dr Natalya Dinat, Project Manager of WITS Palliative Care
- Dr Rachel Jewkes, Director of the Medical Research Council's Gender and Health Unit
Click here for the draft Women's Sector input as per the consultations during the Summit
History
The
South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) undertook a process to
re-structuring and examining the Strategic Plan for 2007-2011. Various
sector meetings took place and organisations made inputs and submissions into the plan.
However, in recognition of the difficulties that SANAC sectors
experienced in consulting on the National Strategic Plan (NSP) the
Department of Health funded sector summits, to allow
each sector to discuss the NSP and to make recommendations.
View the Draft HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011
View the draft Women's Sector submission (note this is a working draft only)
Women's Sector Summit
A working group was established to plan the women's sector summit. Its mandate ended once the summit had taken place.
Click here to view the draft programme for the women's sector summit
Click here to view logistical information including venue, accommodation etc
Click here to view information about the breakaway groups
Click here to view the invitation to the women's sector summit
The restructuring of SANAC required that the women’s sector elect three
representatives. The first representative will sit on the high level
body, with the other two representatives being part of other working
structures of SANAC.
Click here to read more about the process
Click here to access the nomination form
The purpose of the summit is to:
Discuss the NSP from the women's sector perspective and to make consolidated recommendations
Elect a new women's sector representative and develop terms of reference for this representative
How to get involved
Submit names and contact details of organisations / individuals who should be invited to participate in the summit to:
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Click here to see the current list of delegates that have been invited to the Women’s Sector Summit.
It
is still an incomplete list and we request that you examine it to see
if any key individuals and organizations have been omitted. If there is anyone that you think should be invited to the summit, please forward their names to Natalie Martyn at
Send inputs already submitted, relevant research and publications you
think will enrich this process to jan@womensnet.org.za. They will be
uploaded to this website and also used to develop documentation for the
Women's Sector Summit. Individuals and organisations interested in
working on the documentation can contact Liesl Gerntholtz at
liesl@tlac.org.za or T: +27 11 403 4267 or Shereen Usdin at (Soul City)
at shereen@soulcity.org.za or T: 011 - 643 5852