

AVAC: No stigma

AVAC: Safety

Restless Development: To be heard

AVAC: We want the freedom and autonomy to make political/health/economic decisions for ourselves!

Phyllis Emelda: Hands-on skills

Helena Nangombe, Young Women Empowerment Network: Love, respect, EMPOWERMENT, friendly services, and to be allowed to make choices about our health and lives. Women also want and NEED equality in financial and educational opportunities.

Haya Adil Sheikh, Pakistan: Respect, good education and better accessibility to products essential to basic health

Jacquelene Alesi, Uganda: Children by choice, not chance

Faith Aisha Adams, Malawi: Make sexual and reproductive health services and information accessible to adolescent girls and young women in rural areas... they count too!

AVAC: Our voices and choices to be listened to

Amany Abuawad: Equality and no more gender stereotypes

AVAC: To make all decisions about our bodies, our health and actions. We'll ask you if we want your input


Sofia Forum, UK: Meaningfully involve women living with HIV, we have skills, expertise and lived experience

International Women's Health Coalition: Sexual and reproductive health and rights



YP Foundation, India: Safe, accessible, non-judgemental services for my sexual health

Natalie: I want girls like me to have an education


L'Orangelis Thomas Negron, Puerto Rico: Love



To be at the table every time we are discussed. We are NOT targets.

Sophia: Unrestricted access to sexual and reproductive health and rights


Comprehensive sexuality education for youth

Sanchi, India: Universal access to sanitary napkins and no menstruation taboo.
![Xiana: Reproductive Rights [Xiana is an author for the Young Feminist Blog series, and as her own blog at http://www.imaginamas.org/inicio/mujer-vih/]](https://format.creatorcdn.com/3e0677db-c31b-4cbc-be78-a7ba4b012fe0/0/0/0/0,0,1280,1135,700,1135/0-0-0/4a90d8ce-45bc-4f1e-8ed1-a42a3a87bcdc/1/1/IMG_6355.png?fjkss=exp=1976209806~hmac=71250488a209bdeac3ce02fcdbb862a1ac9332f6dc52069822aea78086c29b33)
Xiana, Italy: Reproductive Rights
[Xiana is an author for the Young Feminist Blog Series, and also writes for Imagina Mas



UNFPA Algeria: Family planning services should be available to young men and women, so they can make their own decisions about their bodies


Maldrine Asiimwe, Uganda: Prioritize the needs of adolescent girls and young women in the HIV response.

Akina Mama wa Afrika, Uganda: Respect for young women's reproductive choices.
We asked young women around the world what their priorities are, and this is what they said.






Gender equality globally

To be treated with respect, always!

Life without judgement

A good and honest man

Economic empowerment, access for treatment, funding and property rights!

Dazon: To live their whole sexual lives on their own terms, and to be FREE!

YP Foundation, India : Safety & Freedom

YP Foundation, India : Neither mine nor my family's honor lies in my vagina

Dignity & Autonomy

Prudence Nobantu Mabele: Dignity

Pushpa, India: Safety

Janet, Puerto Rico: Eliminate stigma for all people

Saroja, India: Happiness

Thandiwe, Zimbabwe: A working justice system that protects adolescent girls and young women

Michel Sidibe: To be free

Saradha, India: Respect, though I am a widow

Meena, India: Respect


Put trans* women on the agenda for HIV funding

Kanagavalli, India : Independence

Maha, India: The freedom to remain single

Full decriminalization of sex work, our work places, and our clients for our health, safety and rights

Catherine, Kenya: Funding to influence global policy and political space to organize

Sexual pleasure discourse in comprehensive sexuality education

Young women need tools and information to protect ourselves and to share with other young women.

Fund communities

Resty: We need to be mentored so that we lead and mentor others


Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights

Daniela: Gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all women, in all of our diversity

Education and financial empowerment

Ensure that young women and girls are represented

Respect and power

Adolescent girls voices at the decision making table

Annah: Equality and equity

We want women to be confidently autonomous, and to have full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights everywhere

Brenda: Equal consideration and involvement in policy making

Meenakshi: Equal pay

Greg: Young women's leadership

To separate sex from sin, and to have access to services for ALL women: trans*, lesbian, young, injecting drug users, women living with HIV

Economic empowerment for youth

Income equality

Comprehensive sex education and youth-friendly services

Healthy relationships

A women-led research agenda

Equal consideration and involvement in policy making

Stop criminalizing women


Young women's leadership

Saraswati: Rest

Young Women's Leadership

EQUALITY

Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

Kanthimathi: Respect

Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

To influence policy, and to have money for programs

Invest in women-led civil society

End gender-based violence

Diana: To be involved in decision-making right away, from the family setting to the global level

Allen: Total inclusiveness in all areas of life

Melissa: Autonomy and power over our own bodies

Lotte: Full realization of our human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights!

Lucia: Sexual and reproductive justice NOW

Cierra: To be included at the table in the HIV response, and gender equality

Young women's leadership

To be asked, invited, included, and taken seriously when deciding on policy and actions

Saroja: Cleanliness

Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services

Gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all!

To feel safe when I walk at night

Jacquelyne: Young women's leadership

Women being in control of their own bodies

Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services

I want every woman to know how truly beautiful she is

I want the UN and the African Union to ensure that no woman is being left behind

Isabella: To be bold, strong, secure, educated, emancipated, and empowered

Political and economic POWER

Female condoms and PrEP, safer sex, pleasurable sex, and for our voices to be heard

Khadijah: I want the UN to UNify against AIDS

The recognition and inclusion of women, young women and girls in all of our diversity

Unhindered opportunities

Our voices should be included in all decision making entities at all levels.

Selvi and Kala: Safety

Young women need clear mechanisms in order to participate in the decision making spaces of our communities

An equal seat at the table

Education in the field of protection of our rights, it's part of the foundation of gender equality

Hendrica: Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services

Gender equality and inclusion of groups with priority attention in agendas of international cooperation

Our governments and the Global Fund should make sure that there is accessibility and availability of HIV commodities in our rural communities

Vanessa: Ensure that young women and girls are represented

Invest in women-led civil society

Meaningful and sustainable funding for women-led organizations

Teresia: Human rights, and to end discrimination of women living with HIV

Freedom of expression and safer sex

Gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all

Resty: Clean and proper equipment in labor wards

Rachel: To be represented by those who have our best interest at heart

Meaningful and sustained investment in women-led organizations

Aishu: Education for all

Lazaros: For me to stop perpetuating structures of patriarchy

Education, power, respect, and to be free of stigma

A non-violent relationship

The freedom to choose

To separate sex from sin, and to have access to services for ALL women: trans*, lesbian, young, injecting drug users, women living with HIV

Access to health and social services for every woman