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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.

Articles by Alice Welbourn

Thursday 1st December

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 ?

Friday 17th June

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....

Monday 7th March

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

Wednesday 1st December

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

Thursday 5th August

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

Friday 23rd July

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

Wednesday 21st July

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

Tuesday 20th July

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

Thursday 15th July

"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?

Tuesday 1st December

When things fall apart

Alice Welbourn, 1 December 2009

Alice Welbourn charts her own personal experiences of what she learnt about HIV, about herself and about others during her early years of living with her diagnosis. She reflects on how traumatic experiences can also be ones of growth and self-knowledge – and how HIV has much to teach us all.

Monday 5th October

Balancing on Wheels of Hope

Alice Welbourn, 5 October 2009

Alice Welbourn questions the role of the health authorities in caring for their own health staff with HIV

Friday 28th November

A message for World Aids Day

Alice Welbourn, 28 November 2008

A Message for World AIDS Day 2008

The criminal prosecution of people with HIV is accelerating insidiously around the world. This article charts developments since Alice Welbourn's openDemocracy report on this ‘war on women' for International Women's Day 2008.

Friday 7th March