Who We Are

 

Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) is a US-based 501C3 international community-driven women’s treatment and health access initiative operating primarily in the East African nation of Rwanda. The initiative was launched in 2004 by US-based AIDS physicians, activists and researchers with extensive experience in providing and advocating for care and treatment for HIV positive women in the US and internationally. Our administrative headquarters is located in San Francisco, CA. We also have a local program office in Kigali, Rwanda, which now numbers over 60 local clinical, and other program and support staff. The US office is staffed by one part-time coordinating director and several dedicated volunteers with expertise in clinical, care and systems, mental health, clinical research, legal and advocacy, and administration and finance. These experts provide thousands of hours annually of program and management oversight and technical assistance/capacity building services for the Rwandan WE-ACTx team, as well as collaborating directly with public health officials and Rwandan health scientists on direct service and clinical research programs.