International Human Rights Day 2022 Today we are thrilled to celebrate International Human Rights Day 2022 with the launch of our new STREAM Network. STREAM stands for Stepping Stones Trainers Engaging with Activist Movements. The STREAM Network has been created out of a strategic planning meeting hosted by our wonderful colleagues at Positive Young Women […]
We are very happy to share with you our ninth annual report for the UK financial year 1 April 2017 – 31 March 2018. For further updates on specific projects, please view our Projects pages on this site.
READ MORE‘Our Rights – Our Lives – Our Decisions’ advocacy brief and podcast out now We are delighted to launch a new advocacy brief and podcast about dolutegravir. To access both of these and to read more, click here.
READ MOREWe are delighted to announce that Salamander Associate Longret Kwardem is the winner of the Naz Project 2018 nOscars woman of the year award The nOscars have taken place since 2012. They highlight: “the significant gap between the sexual health outcomes of minority communities compared to the general population.” Longret Kwardem is working with the […]
READ MOREThe impact of Stepping Stones with Children now published We have just published results about the Stepping Stones with Children programme. These included a significant increase in the CD4 counts and weights of the children living with HIV who took part. To access the article abstract and, for those of you who have access, the […]
READ MORESalamander Trust feels privileged to take part in the 22nd International AIDS Conference This is taking place in July in Amsterdam, Holland. To see a list of our activities, please click here. To read the press release about the Women’s Networking Zone and its herstory, click here. ——————————————- Support for the Women’s Networking Zone in […]
READ MOREWe are really happy to announce the publication of an article about Stepping Stones with Children. “Building resilience to adverse childhood experiences: An assessment of the effects of the Stepping Stones with Children training programme on Tanzanian children affected by HIV and their caregivers” Sue Holden, Vanessa LZ Gordon-Dseagu, Gill Gordon, Nelson Chiziza, Pfiriaeli Kiwia, […]
READ MOREPlease join UNAIDS and WHO staff and women living with HIV for a webinar on 9 July 2018 This will be to share information about the Generic Checklist which supports women living with HIV to implement the WHO 2017 Consolidated Guideline on the SRHR of women living with HIV in their own country. Speakers include […]
READ MORE4MNet UK National Network of Peer Mentor Mothers – Advocacy Brief June 2018 We are very happy to launch our new advocacy brief about the work of 4M and its great members. The workshop highlighted in this brief was kindly funded by ViiV Healthcare. To read the brief on issuu click here. To access a […]
READ MOREWe are delighted that a poster featuring research on our 4M project was selected for oral presentation, won a ‘commended’ rosette and also won the BHIVA/BASHH Mediscript 2018 award for community research. The qualitative research evaluation which the poster described was a joint team effort. It was conducted by Amelie Cameron and Longret Kwardem. Amelie […]
READ MORE7 April 2018 Today is World Health Day and the 70th Anniversary of the World Health Association We are happy to announce the launch of a Generic Checklist, funded by WHO, to support the in-country implementation of the 2017 WHO Consolidated guideline on the SRHR of women living with HIV. This WHO Guideline was a landmark […]
READ MOREStepping Stones International Women’s Day Newsletter 2018 Warm greetings on International Women’s Day. Our newsletter for International Women’s Day 2018 focuses on our 4M projects in the UK; and with our partners, PIPE Trust in Kenya and UNYPA in Uganda. 4M stands for My Health, My Choice, My Child, My Life. To read the newsletter, […]
READ MORESalamander Trust have published our January 2018 Stepping Stones newsletter This issue, compiled by Laura Pulteney, focuses on the power of positive language and how thinking about and changing the language we use can shape and influence our attitudes and enable us to engage more effectively with people and their actions. It contains contributions from partners […]
READ MOREWe are very happy to share with you our eighth annual report for the financial year 1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017. For further updates on specific projects, please view our Projects pages on this site.
READ MOREA webinar to launch the ALIV[H]E Framework took place on 9 November 2017 at 1400 Geneva time. The ALIV[H]E Framework seeks to strengthen and expand the evidence base around initiatives to address VAW in the context of HIV at community level. The webinar was recorded. To read more about the ALIV[H]E Framework, click here. To […]
READ MORE4M National Training of Trainers Workshop Manchester October 2017 Salamander Trust has just completed its first 4M National Training of Trainers workshop in Manchester. 14 women trained last year as ‘Mentor Mothers’ from across the country attended the workshop. To read more, click here.
READ MOREOn the CUSP of Change: Effective scaling of social norms programming for gender equality Launch of the CUSP Working Group Policy Brief Today at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Conference in Rio de Janeiro, we are delighted to have joined with partners from around the world to launch the CUSP Working Group Policy Brief. Salamander […]
READ MORELondon launch at Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists On 20 July this Guideline was launched in London. The launch was co-hosted by the Royal College of Gynaecologists and the World Health Organization. To read a summary of the evening through tweets on Spotify, click here. To read a Commentary on the process of being […]
READ MOREHere is our seventh annual report for Salamander Trust. This year, once again, the document is designed for us by the great Jane Shepherd. Thank you once again so much to all our amazing associates, partners and other colleagues around the world. We continue to learn so much from you all and are very grateful […]
READ MOREWe are celebrating 21 years since the original Stepping Stones programme was published by Strategies for Hope in 1995. To mark this event we are delighted to share with you stories about the great work being done by various users of the programme around the world. Please return here soon for […]
READ MORENew Stepping Stones publications Our latest Stepping Stones newsletter is now out. This describes our new programme Stepping Stones with Children, designed for use with children aged 5-8, and 9-14 who have been affected by AIDS, and their caregivers. We have also recently wholly revised and updated Stepping Stones & Stepping Stones Plus, designed for […]
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