Prayer request from Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
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Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
Gracia is an HIV positive activist from Bolivia and an expert on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
She is a member of many national, regional and international networks of people living with HIV, and was a founding member of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga is a Bolivian woman living with HIV. Ross studied Anthropology in the Major University of San Andrés UMSA in La Paz- Bolivia. Currently she is undertaking a Master Degree in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health, with a Research Grant of the WHO in the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima- Peru. She advocates for the human rights of PWA, specially those of women living with HIV.
She is:
* The Andean Representative of ICW (International Community of Women Living with HIV/ AIDS);
* Delegate of the Latin American Network of PWAS (REDLA) to the 3 by 5 working group (WHO initiative);
* Member of the Bolivian Network of PWAS (REDBOL);
* Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (UNAIDS initiative);
* Focal Point in South America for the Global Youth Coalition against AIDS; and
* Member of the International Advisory Committee of BRIDGE.
