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About Alice Welbourn

Alice Welbourn is Founding Director of the Salamander Trust and a member of  the UNESCO Global Advisory Group for sex, relationships and HIV education. She was on the steering committee of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) and co-founded and chairs its UK chapter the SOPHIA Forum. Alice is a Commissiong Editor for the openDemocracy 5050 "AIDS: Rights Here Rights Now" coverage. She can be followed on twitter at @SalamanderTrust

Articles by Alice Welbourn

Women and the post-2015 agenda: are you on board the ark?

Alice Welbourn 18 March 2013

With the roller-coaster of the CSW just finished and the resignation of UNWomen Director Michelle Bachelet, the next year promises stormy seas ahead for setting the future agenda for women’s rights. Alice Welbourn sets out some priorities for civil society in relation to HIV, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive rights.

The gender politics of funding women human rights defenders

Alice Welbourn 10 December 2012

Lack of funding for women’s rights is a form of gender-based violence which is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. Alice Welbourn says it is critical for us to hold governments and the UN to account for gender equitable budgeting.

An HIV-free generation: human sciences vs plumbing

Alice Welbourn 17 August 2012

The top down medical bio-fix behind the new Global Plan for an AIDS-free generation will not work without shifting the status quo to include human rights and the science of phenomenology: that means talking to us, funding us and involving us, says Alice Welbourn

Is there a future for women living with HIV?

Alice Welbourn 27 July 2012

Rumours of the closure of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and a World Bank and USAID meeting of "world thought leaders" with no women on the panel. On the final day of the XIX International AIDS Conference, Alice Welbourn reports on the battle for the human rights of women with HIV to health, participation in the world, and to dignity.

HIV: time for the US to put its own house in order ?

Alice Welbourn 23 July 2012

In the US more than 80% of women living with HIV are women of colour and poverty. Funding is drying up for prevention and supportive services, and HIV criminalization is on the increase. Alice Welbourn reports on the opening day of the X1X International AIDS Conference in Washington DC

HIV and the Global Plan: turning the tide or a wash-out for women?

Alice Welbourn 16 July 2012

The 19th International  AIDS Conference opens in Washington DC next week. We all seek an HIV-free generation but as the Global Plan gathers pace, the juggernaut effect, with little safeguard for women’s rights or safety, may yet derail the process. Alice Welbourn explains why.

HIV: of bombs and banks and transformation...

Alice Welbourn 1 December 2011
Thirty years into the AIDS pandemic, an AIDS-free generation is in our grasp at last. Alice Welbourn asks whether we are really going to let it vanish, thanks to the aggressive traits of financiers and governments ?

The "calm down dear" factor writ large: AIDS, women and the UN

Alice Welbourn 17 June 2011
In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to survive on? Alice Welbourn reports on the plethora of men on the platform in New York....

Rocking the cradle - and the boat

Alice Welbourn 7 March 2011
Global funding for HIV/Aids now goes to large international organisations. They need the grassroots organisations to tick their boxes of “community involvement”, but they are corporate entities, and the money for the daily advocacy work of positive women has all but dried up, says Alice Welbourn

Positive women human rights defenders

Alice Welbourn 1 December 2010
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one of us, it will be time to recognize the dangerous work of these women

We hear the thunder but we see no rain

Alice Welbourn 5 August 2010
Whilst the dollars roll big-time for medical male circumcision, we are forever at the wrong end of a deeply entrenched uneven male playing field of traditions when it comes to gender, HIV - and funding

Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence

Alice Welbourn 23 July 2010
At the close of the AIDS Conference in Vienna, Alice Welbourn reports that the question of whether a human rights agenda to public health will really start to find its way into the science tracks of these conferences still hangs above us all

Medication, prevention and me

Alice Welbourn 21 July 2010

"For those of us who are in stable relationships with an HIV-negative partner – or seeking one – this was total music to our ears". Alice Welbourn reports from the International AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna

Sistership in action: zoning in on Vienna

Alice Welbourn 20 July 2010

There we all were, presentation-writing abandoned, frantically wielding screwdrivers to construct eight large flatpack bookshelves which we have been lent for the week. Grace springs into action as the flatpack queen, explaining patiently to the rest of us the critical sequence to construction without tears. The frantic week has begun

"More than just a pound of flesh"?

Alice Welbourn 15 July 2010
It is time to move beyond the 'objective' evidence base to rights and justice for women with HIV. Will the International AIDS Conference in Vienna next week make a difference?

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