Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV: October 23, 2018

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.