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Causes: AIDS, AIDS Research, Health
Mission: To change the course of the hiv/aids pandemic through a unique and comprehensive focus on women.
Programs: The well project 2016 accomplishments objective 1: to become the premier online resource on women affected by hiv in the world by providing accurate, current, and culturally relevant information to women living withand at risk forhiv, as well as those who care for them. * reviewed, updated, and disseminated more than 111 fact sheets on women and hiv; added new content, including transwomen and hiv, a resource list for transwomen living with hiv, why race matters: women and hiv, long-term survivors of hiv, and finding a cure. * updated 26 slidesets of our most accessed fact sheets for users/advocates to use as a teaching/training tool. * developed and disseminated 1 conference update from croi; disseminated more than 15 blogs on a girl like me/una chica como yo highlighting bloggers updates/experiences from conferences including croi, aids watch, aids 2016, usca, pwn summit, and more. * developed and disseminated 3 new spotlights on women living with hiv, featuring the work and leadership of our community advisory board members and bloggers* through targeted sem, increased our page views and unique users both increased by 9%, and average session duration on website by 17%. We also saw a 12% increase in users in the united states, with the top states mirroring those with the largest numbers of women living with hiv as well as increases from the prior year: california (+7%), texas (+3%), new york (+24%), florida (+7%), georgia (+24%), illinois (+13%), pennsylvania (+24%), north carolina (+11%), michigan (+22%), and district of columbia (+42%)* developed and executed concrete partnership agreements with pre-existing 18 partners; added 4 new organizational partners (be prepared, project inform, translators without borders, and world); highlighted 8 featured partners on website in 2016 (iris house, nblca, nwghaad, pwn-usa, smart, translators without borders, and until theres a cure)* partnered on multiple initiatives/events including nwghaad (office of womens health), twitter chat on repreive trial and hiv/cvd (nih/harvard), nwghaad twitter chat (pwn and greater than aids), usca session on ipv and women living with hiv(greater than aids/empowered), twitter chat for day of action to end violence against women living with hiv (pwn-usa, along with co-sponsors: national network to end domestic violence, the womens hiv program at ucsf, christies place), and a webinar with the womens collective prep in practice: considerations for hiv prevention among women of color* developed, printed and disseminated 11 new postcards (9 english, 2 in spanish) featuring community advisory board members and testimonials of how the well project has impacted their work and lives* translated and disseminated 10 fact sheets in spanish through partnership with translators without borders* added en espanol section to website to house spanish fact sheets and una chica como yo blogs* developed and disseminated 22 newsletters to a subscriber list of 5,500 with updates on new content, blogs, webinars, and events----------------------------------------------------------------------objective 2: build a strong and engaged global network and community of women living with hiv. * added 16 new bloggers to a girl like me/una chica como yo* published and disseminated 141 blogs* social media reach: ~ facebook: 5682 followers (60% increase from 2015) with 424 posts having 984,000 impressions (153% increase from 2015) ~ twitter: 7117 followers as of end of 2016 (17% increase from 2015) with 641 tweets having 505,000 impressions (73% increase from 2015) ~ added instagram account* held 3 cab virtual meetings to discuss strategy and needs, review programming, and support their advocacy work through scholarships and trainings* had representation/organizational presence (executive director, managing editor, global ambassadors, or bloggers) at most major hiv conferences including croi, aids 2016, women now! , usca, pwn summit, hiv is not a crime, aidswatch, and many more regional conferences. _________________________________________________________________objective 3: build leadership and advocacy capacity among women and girls affected by hiv. * 2016 watch! Webinar series included: otaking care: understanding and addressing mental health among women living with hiv ocommunity perspectives from croi 2016 owhy race matters: women, intersectionality, and hiv osurviving hiv over the long term: the past, present, and future, part 1 osurviving hiv over the long term: the past, present, and future, part 2* supported 2 wlhiv to serve as p/t global ambassadors (u. S. And nigeria) for the well project to disseminate information/education, represent the well project at meetings/conferences, liaise with bloggers, and raise awareness of the well projects resources for wlhiv; supported one cab member as p/t communication manager to develop job training and leadership* presented (with cab members/aglm bloggers) a girl like me: crossing borders and tackling stigma through technology at iris house summit, usca, and pwn summit; surviving over the long term: the past, the present, and the future at pwn-summit* provided partial and full scholarships to 8 members of cab to attend scientific conferences, advocacy and policy conferences, and other professional trainings including aids 2016, women now! Aids watch, usca, and pwn-usa summitdonated services or use of equipment, materials or facilities:vendor amount expensegoogle $482,026. 54 advertisingunderwood & roberts, pllc $ 3,351. 25 tax return preparationtranslators without borders $ 4,126. 00 database / translationpricing engine $ 38,500. 00 advertisinghonoraria $ 1,650. 00 honorariawomen as the face of aids $ (500. 00) contribution ------------------total $529,154. 00 ==================