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Official Account of the Organisation of African First Ladies for Development. 2025-27 : PR 🇸🇱/VP 🇦🇴| #Newsletter ✉️⤵️ #OAFLAD

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From adolescence to motherhood, menopause, and beyond. African women carry health journeys that deserve to be seen, understood, and spoken about openly. Built on years of advocacy for women's health across Africa, OAFLAD is now bringing those stories to light. Join us on this journey!

Stay tuned!

#BuildingResilienceForHealth #HerJourneyHerHealth #WomensHealth

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De l'adolescence à la maternité, en passant par la ménopause et au-delà, les parcours de santé des femmes africaines méritent d'être vus, compris et abordés ouvertement. Forte de plusieurs années d'engagement pour la santé des femmes en Afrique, OAFLAD met aujourd'hui ces histoires en lumière. Rejoignez-nous dans cette aventure !

Restez connecté(e)s !

#RenforcerLaRésiliencePourLaSanté #SonParcoursSaSanté #SantéDesFemmes

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From adolescence to motherhood, menopause, and beyond. African women carry health journeys that deserve to be seen, understood, and spoken about openly. Built on years of advocacy for women's health across Africa, OAFLAD is now bringing those stories to light. Join us on this journey!

Stay tuned!

#BuildingResilienceForHealth #HerJourneyHerHealth #WomensHealth

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#AfricaDay Today we celebrate the strength, diversity, and unstoppable spirit of our continent.

At OAFLAD, we believe Africa's future is built on the resilience of its people and especially its women and girls.

As climate change and conflict reshape lives across the continent, African First Ladies stand united to protect the most vulnerable, advance gender equality, and ensure no woman or girl is left behind.

This Africa Day, let's keep building a continent where every woman and girl can thrive💪🏾
#BuildingResilience #OAFLAD #WeAreEqual #AfricanFirstLadies

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In case you missed it: 👇 A must-read op-ed.

@OAFLAD VP H.E. Dr. Ana Dias Lourenço, First Lady of Angola, joins @Rotary's Jennifer Jones @JenJonesRotary to spotlight the women quietly sustaining one of Africa's greatest health victories — and warn what we stand to lose.

🔗📖: https://t.co/teRNvQN1qk

#BuildingResilience #OAFLAD #OPDAD

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✅ Day 3 brought our Transformative Advocacy Training to a close in Addis Ababa.

Yesterday, Technical Advisors mapped funding sources, launched the TA Network, made 45-day advocacy commitments, and finalized 6-month country workplans.

We also extend our sincere appreciation to the Technical Advisors representing the First Ladies of 14 Member States who actively took part in this training: Burundi, Botswana, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
#BuildingResilience #OAFLAD

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Behind every committed First Lady is a team turning vision into action💪🏾

Today in Addis Ababa, OAFLAD in partnership with AHF Africa @ahfafrica under the Health Working Group initiative opens the Transformative Advocacy Training Program for the Technical Advisors of African First Ladies.

Over the next three days, we will spend time to share learn and dialogue with experts who turn the vision of First Ladies into action on the ground — sharpening their skills in HIV/AIDS advocacy, maternal health and access to essential services.

When advisors are well informed the work they do will be evidence based and , First Ladies' voices reach further — and communities feel the difference.

📍 Addis Ababa 🗓️ 12–14 May 2026

#BuildingResilience #OAFLAD #OPDAD #HIVAdvocacy

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🌍 Day 2 kicks off!
After mapping the epidemic yesterday, today we sharpen the strategy: SMART advocacy objectives, stakeholder analysis, negotiation skills & measuring impact.
From knowledge → to action. 💡
#BuildingResilience #OAFLAD #HIVAdvocacy #AHFAfrica @ahfafrica

[Mama Rachel Ruto, EGH @MamaRachelRuto]

As technology continues to shape the way children learn, communicate, and understand the world around them, we must ensure that innovation never outpaces protection. The same digital space that opens doors to opportunity can also expose children to harm if we do not act with urgency and responsibility.

[Jennifer Jones @JenJonesRotary]

Thank you H.E. Dr. Ana Dias Lourenço, First Lady of Angola for joining me in co-authoring the following op-ed. "Women's Leadership Essential to Sustaining Progress Made in Immunization in Africa" https://t.co/08RKZ2wODD via @allafrica

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Women's Leadership Essential to Sustaining Progress Made in Immunization in Africa @allafrica: https://t.co/nPsuubVQek #Africa #Polio #vaccination

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

Delighted to be in Lausanne to represent @UNAIDS at the opening of #AFRAVIH2026. Wonderful to be with so many people from the AIDS movement, community, and science. My message highlighted the need for us to end inequalities — in access to innovations, in financing, and in rights — that drive new HIV infections and keep people away from services.
#EndAIDS

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The next generation took the floor—Hiba Khalid Mohammed 🇪🇹, Kerry Mwita Omome 🇰🇪, Angel Babirye 🇺🇬—driving bold dialogue on SRHR, gender equality & youth power. From intergenerational exchange to shared accountability, one message stood out: two generations, one agenda—moving from influence to impact. 💜 #OAFLADatWD26 #WD2026 #ChangeCallsUsHere

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🌍OAFLAD is heading to Women Deliver 2026 📣| Melbourne 🇦🇺 | 27–30 April
Our agenda:
🔹 Ending FGM/C & harmful practices
🔹 Financing the end of child marriage in humanitarian settings
🔹 First Ladies & adolescents advancing gender equality
#OAFLADatWD26 #WD2026 @WomenDeliver

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H.E. Mrs Marie Khone Faye, First Lady of Senegal 🇸🇳 , named the urgent challenge:
A persistent gap between political commitments and lived reality — on SRHR, gender-based violence, education and economic opportunity for young people.

Her Excellency continued :
She warned that youth leadership is too often recognised symbolically — rather than structurally embedded in the systems that shape policies and budgets.

Sustainable gender equality cannot be achieved without young people at the heart of the solution.
#OAFLADatWD26 #WD2026