– Women, HIV, and Feminist Struggles: Emerging from the Shadows, Regaining Power – June 17, 2025 #12
This meeting with Charlotte Pezeril provided an opportunity to examine how the promotion of activist and academic knowledge, as well as the integration of feminist approaches, can transform practices and policies. The challenge is to move beyond a reductive biomedical view of HIV to reveal how this epidemic crystallizes power relations linked to gender, race, […]
– Amplifying voices, deconstructing norms: A look back at the three Equipop Labs in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Benin
In 2025, Equipop organized a series of three Feminist Social Innovation Labs (Labs) in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Benin. They brought together activists and representatives of feminist and civil society organizations committed to gender equality and sexual and reproductive health rights.
Santeya Sansanyi: Youth involvement and empowerment in public action (SRHR) in Guinea
Interview with Sekh Amadou KEITA, coordinator of the "Santeya Sansanyi: Youth Involvement and Empowerment in Public Action (DSSR)" project in Guinea. In this interview, he presents the project, its objectives and challenges, as well as the changes expected at the end of the project.
– The Fondemsan grant: Equipop's role in the West Africa project
Since 2017, Equipop has been working with OOAS to roll out the FONDEMSAN grant, which supports citizen and political mobilization initiatives promoting the sexual and reproductive rights and health of adolescents and young people in French-speaking West Africa. Elise Petitpas, Program Manager at Equipop, provides an update!
Fondemsan Niger: Lawali Amadou reflects on the innovative nature of Round 1
Interview with Lawali Amadou, project manager, Jama’a Jar (Round 1) in Niger, who kindly agreed to answer a few questions we asked him. In this exchange, he discusses the innovative nature of the project, the changes it has brought about, and the challenges it faces.