Welcome to the Salamander Trust
Transforming the way we think about HIV
STOP PRESS: Please sign the petition to Save the Global Fund. Click here to read, sign and forward to your friends. It only takes 2 minutes and millions will thank you.
On a sister site we also have a letter to the G8 leaders, which we would be so glad if you would sign, outlining our concerns in more detail. Please, if you have another 2 minutes read and sign this too!
What we do:
Salamander aims to protect, promote and enhance the health and rights of people particularly, but not exclusively, marginalised by societies worldwide as a result of their gender, HIV status or sexual and reproductive health.
Salamander seeks to promote sexual and reproductive health with HIV prevention, care and support, within a holistic, gender-based human rights framework.
We are incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and as a registered charity in the UK.
How we do this:
- we raise awareness of relevant issues through the development and dissemination of print and multimedia materials;
- we make presentations, attend, promote and host meetings on these issues;
- we develop, support and work closely with related networks;
- we represent the views of those marginalised on the basis of their gender and sexual health status and enable them to express their own views;
- we support the Community Of Practice of around 900 organisations who are users of the "Stepping Stones" training programme on gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills, which was created by Salamander's Founding Director. The programme is now in use in over 100 countries around the world
We work at multiple levels: we engage with community activists, health and legal professionals, UN staff, parliamentarians, the media and the public at large.