Help in building women's meaningful participation in the upcoming UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS by filling out a short survey by March 13 from The ATHENA Network and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA).  Please see the following invitation:

Dear Friends

The High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS that takes place in June this year will review achievements made against the commitments of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment of 2001, and the Political Declaration of 2006. It will determine the priority agenda for work on HIV and AIDS over the next five years, in particular as we work towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Multiple processes are underway to ensure broad stakeholder engagement and representation in the outcomes of the Meeting. These include regional civil society consultations and pre-meetings. ()

The ATHENA Network and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) are running a virtual survey in order to ensure the broadest possible engagement and representation of women (and girls wherever possible) in the processes leading up to the HLM – especially women living with and affected by HIV, and other key populations of women who often lack platforms for priority issues to be raised and heard.

This survey will be sent via various electronic social media to women in all regions, in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. From the responses we receive, we are seeking to identify regional messages, which can be fed into the regional consultations being held over the next two months, and consolidated into 3 to 4 key global asks to feed into the HLM outcome document by the beginning of April. Beyond the HLM process, we hope that the findings that the survey produces will be useful at the national, regional, and international advocacy levels. We will be producing regional summaries of the findings.

WE WOULD BE SO GLAD IF YOU WOULD TAKE PART IN THIS GLOBAL SURVEY.

The survey takes about 20 - 30 minutes to complete in full, but there is the option of only completing the first 2 parts which can be done in 5 minutes

Link to survey:

Deadline: Sunday 13th March

We are also attaching an email version - please only use this in the event that you do not have internet access, and return completed questionnaires to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by Sunday 13th March 2011