1. Baby Rivona Indonesian Positive Women Network (IPPI) International Community of Women living with HIV reps; Asia Pacific

2.   President decree no 3/2010; gender mainstreaming program in NAC and all Provincial AIDS Commission  Mid term review National Strategic Plan on HIV  Initiative gender responsive collaboration NAC, and Ministry Women Empowerment and Protection Child training on planning and budgeting, IPPI meaningful involve in this  IPPI CEDAW Workshop  IPPI Research on PMTCT  IPPI Study on VAW living with HIV  IPPI VAW campaign through film documentary “HARUS” (SHOULD; the Unfinished story) Since the Agreed Conclusions of CSW in 2009; Some progress has been made to address gender inequalities and increased vulnerabilities of women to HIV in policies and programs to address HIV

3.   IPPI member and vice secretary in NAC gender task force; focus on Human Right and Gender  Others Task Force member are Ministry of Women Empowerment, Ministry of Social Affair, Ministry of Law and Human Right, National Violence Against Women Commission, National Network of Key Affected Population and CSO focus on women and migrant issues  Through this task force the integration effort of violence against women be discussed more seriously and be the entrance to a recommendation of the Strategy and National Action Plan for HIV who have not prioritized this integration into the strategic plan and action plan and budget.  The role of civil society members of the task force has done significantly with the success of encouraging the study of issues related to the importance of accommodating women and violence against women in Strategic and National Action Plan.  This study also used as one of the recommendations in the mid term review Strategic and National Action Plan. Involvement of women living with HIV in the response to HIV

4.   Indonesia Positive Women Network (IPPI) has made the integration agenda of violence against women in the AIDS response as a priority advocacy.  IPPI processes start from carried out documenting cases of violence against women living with HIV (members) in 8 provinces in Indonesia, and did CEDAW workshop to the provincial coordinator,  IPPI engaged in CEDAW shadow report with CEDAW Working Group Indonesia (CWGI) and continue with consultation process in the preparation of the CEDAW Committee hearing conducted by the Ministry of Women Empowerment and the National Violence Against Commission.  National Coordinator IPPI also participated to attend the CEDAW Committee which was held in New York in July 2012. Engagement with the CEDAW reporting processes into actions at the national level

5.   “Recognizing the right of WLHIV it's not solely just providing them with access to care and treatment. We should respect their dignity and their right to have a children as well as the other women. We still found many cases which WLHIV became victim of violences. It is our responsibility to address it because violence against WLHIV and several forced sterilization cases we found was not just VAW but it's a violence against humanity. We urge all state members of UN to take an appropriate commitment and action to eliminate violence against women living with HIV.” IPPI Oral Statement on CEDAW

6.   Cultural and religion norms in Indonesia are still impacted to gender equality  The barriers on employment policy not sensitive for PLHIV including WLHIV  AIDS response still exclusive not integrate with others social issues Challenges

7.   Government need to develop strategic and action plan to address all WLHIV issues including linkages VAW and HIV  Need to support WLHIV group with specific program and budget allocating  Develop monitoring and evaluation mechanism as priority of meaningful involvement WLHIV Policy and programming efforts to address the needs of WLHIV

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