Breaking Barriers : Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean - Robin Lin Miller

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Breaking Barriers

Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

By: Robin Lin Miller, George Ayala

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Paperback | 3 December 2024

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221 Pages

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What contributions can LGBT activists make to eliminating the inequities that drive the HIV epidemic in countries that are hostile to sexual and gender minority rights? In Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, Robin Lin Miller and George Ayala tell the story of a transnational partnership among community activists from eight countries to address the entrenched stigma and discrimination that blocks sexual and gender minority people from accessing affirming HIV care. Through their extended case study of Project ACT, they demonstrate how activists contributed to social progress within their country environments, despite great obstacles. Documenting the project from its inception through to its untimely demise due to the Covid pandemic, Miller and Ayala highlight the many ups and downs endured by activists and their allies as they tried to promote access to health care in politically and culturally hostile national contexts and with limited financial resources. They raise questions about the role of donors and partners from the Global North in supporting progress on the ground in Global South countries. They also consider effective strategies for evaluating human rights-focused HIV advocacy in these fraught environments. Ultimately, Miller and Ayala provide readers guidance on principles of practice for human rights advocacy and for planning, carrying out, and evaluating projects that aspire to create structural change to improve access to affirming HIV care for sexual and gender minority people.

Industry Reviews

"This book offers one of the most thorough descriptions available of what advocacy evaluation looks like when it is community-engaged, collaborative, driven by values, methodologically rigorous, and fully-integrated into the work of advocates so that it supports their learning, adaptation, and the pursuit of their goals. As a longtime advocacy evaluator, I was deeply moved and incredibly inspired." -- Julia Coffman, Founder and Co-Executive Director, Center for Evaluation Innovation, Washington, DC "This is a compassionate and honest account of advocacy for policy reform and strategic community-led responses to HIV prevention and LGBTQ+ persons' needs in Africa and the Caribbean regions. This compelling account of years of advocacy and lobbying neither idealizes nor trivializes partners committed to social transformation. Successes and failures provide the reader with much to learn from, especially, the importance of adaptative strategies of resilience in the face of resistance." -- Sybille N. Nyeck, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder

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