ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum Provincial Chairperson
ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum marks World AIDS Day with a clarion call for urgent, women-centred action.
This World AIDS Day, the ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum refuses to look away from a crisis that continues to devastate families and futures.
In Gauteng alone, 1.7 million people are living with HIV – a figure larger than the entire population of several countries. The burden falls disproportionately on women: one in four women aged 25-49
is HiV-positive, compared to one in seven men.
These are not statistics. They are mothers raising children single-handedly. Daughters whose dreams are cut short. Sisters battling in silence.
HIV thrives where gender inequality and gender-based violence are left unchecked. It is fuelled by a health system that too often fails the very women it is meant to protect. The ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum will no longer accept another generation lost to a virus that is both preventable and treatable.
On this World AIDS Day, we draw a line in the sand and make an unbreakable commitment:
To champion women-centred healthcare that delivers testing, treatment, and prevention to every community and every home.
To integrate HIV awareness into every fight against gender-based violence and femicide – because no woman should have to fear both her partner and her status.
To hold government and all stakeholders accountable for reaching the UNAIDS 95-95-95
targets – no excuses, no delays.
Through flagship initiatives My Sister’s Keeper and Heal to Lead, to transform survivors into leaders and pain into power.
This is not a request. This is a demand.
To every leader, every department, and every South African: the era of speeches is over. Deliver real access. Deliver real safety. Deliver real change.
Every woman in Gauteng deserves the right to live – not merely survive.
1.7 Million Lives. One Province. Enough Is Enough
ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum marks World AIDS Day with a clarion call for urgent, women-centred action.
This World AIDS Day, the ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum refuses to look away from a crisis that continues to devastate families and futures.
In Gauteng alone, 1.7 million people are living with HIV – a figure larger than the entire population of several countries. The burden falls disproportionately on women: one in four women aged 25-49
is HiV-positive, compared to one in seven men.
These are not statistics. They are mothers raising children single-handedly. Daughters whose dreams are cut short. Sisters battling in silence.
HIV thrives where gender inequality and gender-based violence are left unchecked. It is fuelled by a health system that too often fails the very women it is meant to protect. The ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum will no longer accept another generation lost to a virus that is both preventable and treatable.
On this World AIDS Day, we draw a line in the sand and make an unbreakable commitment:
targets – no excuses, no delays.
This is not a request. This is a demand.
To every leader, every department, and every South African: the era of speeches is over. Deliver real access. Deliver real safety. Deliver real change.
Every woman in Gauteng deserves the right to live – not merely survive.
Together, we end this. Together, we rise.