AMSHeR Steering Committee Meeting 2 AMSHeR hosted it’s second full steering committee meeting this February in Addis Ababa at the Adlon Hotel. The meeting was facilitated by Oxfam’s Rajiv Dua.

AMSHeR takes part in the Africa Sexuality Conference on Sexuality and HIV/AIDS In addition to hosting a panel on MSM and HIV at the February 2010 Africa Sexuality Conference on sexuality and HIV/AIDS, AMSHeR actively participated in other panels of the conference giving various presentation on MSM’s health and rights.

AMSHeR at the IAC 2010 in Vienna AMSHeR actively participated at the International AIDS conference in Vienna in July/August 2010, in this gallery shows AMSHeR’s Director, Joel Nana, and CEDEP’s Gift Trapence at the MSMGF press conference

Yvonne Chaka Chaka, the Princess of Africa, supports AMSHeR Yvonne Chaka Chaka launched AMSHeR’s booth at the exhibition Hall of the International AIDS conference. Yvonne also participated in other AMSHeR sponsored event and spoke very strongly on the need to protect MSM and LGBT people from Human Rights violations

AMSHeR Annual 2011 Membership Meeting AMSHeR held its first Annual Membership Meeting on the 5th-9th February in Maputo Mozambique at Hotel Pestana Rovuma. The meeting was facilitated by Sam Avrett.

AMSHeR Leadership Institute From the May 31 to June 3, AMSHeR held its first Leadership Institute – an intensive training workshop to develop the capacity of its membership on human rights advocacy and HIV and health programming. The Institute had three objectives:, (1) To develop abstracts for the 17th edition of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, (2) to train AMSHeR members on the Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GAFTM) its basic operating principles, its core structures at the global and country level as well as opportunites for influencing its process for greater engagement with African MSM and LGBT organizations and, (3) to develop written submissions for the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.