[Press Kit, International Conference on AIDS (13th : 2000 : Durban, South Africa)]

What is the Global Campaign
for STI/HIV Prevention Alternatives for Women?
The Global Campaign for STI/HIV Prevention Alternatives for Women is a broadbased international effort to build political pressure for increased public sector investment in
prevention alternatives other than the male condom. One of the most urgent and
compelling public health needs in the world today is the availability of products for use by
women to help protect themselves, their partners, and their infants from HIV and other
sexually-transmitted diseases. That no such products exist twenty years into the global
AIDS pandemic is nothing short of scandalous. The Campaign works via its member groups
to cultivate awareness and demand for microbicides and to translate that demand into
concrete political action. The Campaign currently has over 50 participating organizations
worldwide that mobilize political will via public education, constituency building, and
legislative advocacy.
At the AIDS 2000 conference in Durban, South Africa, the Global Campaign will be at Booth
110 Community Exhibit Hall and will be represented at the following events:
Saturday July 8, 2-4 pm: Community Forum, "Gender and Diversity" session on Womancontrolled Prevention Methods - University of Natal-Durban, Shepstone Hall.
Sunday July 9, 10:30 am - 12 pm: Women at Durban Satellite Session on Microbicides -
International Conference Center Hall 5-2D
Monday, July 10, 11:30 am: Community Dialogue, "Female Controlled Prevention" Session
CMO 01 - Playhouse IX.
Monday, July 10, 3-5 pm: Training Workshop, "Building Global Advocacy for Womancontrolled Prevention Methods" - AF17E, C-Hall 3.
Tuesday, July 11, 9-10:30 am: Satellite Symposium Workshop, "Microbicides Advocacy and
the Global Campaign" - Durban Playhouse, 29 Acutt Street.
Lori Heise is a co-founder of the Global Campaign. For the past nine years, Ms. Heise has
worked to make women's empowerment an explicit part of the global HIV prevention
strategy and has been a strong proponent of microbicides. She serves as an expert advisor
to the World Health Organization on women and HIV and has advocated vigorously for
increased research into female-controlled methods of HIV prevention. Ms. Heise has
published widely on the topic of woman-controlled methods and has served on several
panels at the National Institutes of Health to review research proposals related to women
and HIV. Her articles on women and HIV appear in AIDS, Social Science and Medicine, and
the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She currently serves as a Steering Committee
member of the Microbicide Development Fund. While in Durban, Ms. Heise can be reached
at: 082.858.3544 or [email protected].
Megan Gottemoeller, MPH is the international grassroots coordinator of the Global
Campaign. She began her work in international advocacy and community organizing in
Nicaragua in 1992, and has worked in women's rights and health education projects in Latin
America and the U.S. In 1997 she received a Master's degree in health education and
communication from Tulane University School of Public Health. Ms. Gottemoeller can be
reached in Durban at: 082.858.3325 or [email protected].