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Ensuring that people and communities have the power to choose, to know, to thrive and to demand is the key to ending AIDS Game-changing approaches, such as medicine to prevent HIV (PrEP), integration of contraceptive services with HIV testing, viral load suppression (U = U), harm reduction, and comprehensive sexuality education, give people the power to protect themselves from HIV and, for people living with HIV, the power to thrive NAIROBI/GENEVA, 26 November 2019— A new report by UNAIDS,  Power to the people , released ahead of  World AIDS Day , shows that where people and communities living with and affected by HIV are engaged in decision-making and HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment. When people have the power to choose, to know, to thrive, to demand and to work together, lives are saved, injustices are prevented and dignity is restored. “When people and communities have power and agency, ...

A girl child given bodycare education and provided opportunities to hone self-care skills, participates fully in quality life promoting activities.     This in turn is what makes a mature woman demand services and be engaged in causing better life for self and planned for children in case she is to have them. We bring you two issues that caught our eyes during this on-going ICPD 25+ Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. SRHR and Women with Disabilities: Bringing Two Movements Together Women with disabilities have been systematically denied the right to free and informed consent, bodily autonomy and self-determination in making choices about SRH, leading to forced sterilization, abortion and contraception. This underscored why there is an urgent need to ensure SRHR advocacy addresses the rights and needs of women with disabilities. Stakeholders need to lay the groundwork for critical advocacy to address these intersectional rights issues. This session is convened by CRE...