The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) was established in 2003 as a partnership of like-minded, progressive civil society organisations to galvanise a movement of civil society actors to advance a human rights-based response  to HIV in Southern Africa. Since 2019, the partnership has been working to promote respect for and the protection of the rights to bodily autonomy and integrity (BAI) for all to reduce inequality, especially gender inequality, and to promote health, dignity, and wellbeing in East and Southern Africa (ESA). The organisation has grown immensely commencing from five partner organizations at inception and currently works with more than 100 partners within 18 countries in the sub-region. ARASA aims to strengthen and build a strong voice regarding HIV and TB prevention, Universal Health Coverage, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Eexpression and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for the marginalised groups (in their diversities) mainly women, adolescent girls and young women, LGBTQI+, people who use drugs, people living with HIV and sex workers.