This October 23, 2018, for the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA asks our community to stand with us to end the systemic violence that makes women and people of trans experience more vulnerable to intimate partner violence. Specifically, we are asking supporters to sign on to a policy platform that ensures women living with HIV have the basic human needs that allow us to avoid and escape intimate partner violence: housing, food, and health care.
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Will you stand with us to demand a Health and Economic Security Agenda for All People Living with HIV?

  • Ensure access to affordable, high-quality health care, including abortion and contraception, regardless of gender identity, age, ability to pay, pre-existing conditions, or immigration status.
  • Fight to expand Medicaid and support universal health care proposals at the state and federal level.
  • Refuse to accept any cuts to Medicaid, as well as Medicaid waivers that would restrict access to health care coverage for low-income communities, including work requirements.
  • Resist any efforts to dismantle and disrupt health care for low-income communities, and oppose all proposals or policies that require people to be sick or unreasonably poor in order to access health care.
  • Support the rights of sex workers to work safely without criminalization, with access to the support and resources needed to stay healthy, and without fear of violence, stigma, or harassment.
  • Advance programmatic and service delivery solutions that support women living with HIV in finding safety and healing from trauma and violence.
  • Support a robust and comprehensive social safety net and oppose attempts to cut or restrict funding for programs that provide low-income people living with HIV with assistance in accessing food (SNAP), health care (Medicaid, Medicare, and Ryan White), housing/utilities (HOPWA and LIHEAP), and income (TANF).
  • Strengthen protections against discrimination for people of the transgender experience, including explicit protections against sexual orientation and gender identity-based discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public accommodations.

Endorsing Organizations

Accepting the Unacceptable
ACCESS Women’s Health Justice
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDS United
APLA Health
Arkansas RAPPS, Inc.
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
Black AIDS Institute
Blossoming in Red
Boulder County AIDS Project BCAP
Center for Health and Gender Equity
Cero VIH Puerto Rico
Christie’s Place
CORA- Colorado Organizations and Individuals Responding to HIV/AIDS
Danya Institute
Ending HIV Criminalization and Overincarceration in Virginia Coalition
Equality North Carolina
Futures Without Violence
HIVE
HIV Modernization Movement – Indiana
HIV Power Shift
Houston AIDS Research Team Community Advisory Board
iknowAwareness
IUPUI
Liver Health Connection
Living in 3-D
Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women
My Fabulous Disease
Nashville CARES
National Network to End Domestic Violence
NMAC
New Jersey Association on Correction
North Carolina AIDS Action Network
Overcoming The Stigma (GA)
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Positive People Network
Positive Women’s Network GA
Positive Women’s Network – NV
Project Inform
PWN-USA Texas Greater Houston Area
PWN SC Regional Chapter
SIA Legal Team 
SisterLove, Inc.
Sonya’s House Inc
Team Friendly, Inc
The Counter Narrative Project
The Empowerment Program, Denver CO
The Well Project
Transgender Law Center
Treatment Action Group
UCHAPS
United States People Living with HIV Caucus
Unity Fellowship of Christ Church NYC
U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus
Women’s HIV Program at UCSF
Women’s Education Development Society