Mutapola is the name of a woman being used by the campaign to give a human face to the sufferings and struggles of women and girls infected and affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The name is used as a common entity representing all women and girls who need treatment and comprehensive care.
ActionAid, which relocated its headquarters from London to Johannesburg, launched a campaign called ‘The Mutapola’ Dec. 1/2004 to coincide with World AIDS Day. In Cameroon LUKMEF-Cameroon was commissioned by ActionAid/SIPAA to carry out preliminary ground work to launch Mutapola in Cameroon on 25/07/05-31/09/2005. Mutapola is the name of a woman who the charity is featuring in its campaign to highlight the plight of women and girl caregivers.

The framework puts women and girls at the centre of the response. It is rights-based in its orientation and affirms the inalienable rights of women as well as thier under - affirmed capacities. It interogates the meanigfulness of curent development practises and questions whether they address the key issues around practices and questions whether they in fact perpetuate the statut quo and further entrench women's discrimination and exploitation. Home based care programmes are one such area of concern.