August 31, 2020: Shannon Robinson is one busy woman. She has been organizing around the elections in Colorado with PWN since the 2018 midterms--work she's continuing for the 2020 elections. But her organizing kicked into high gear at the end of [...]
June 30, 2020: Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down yet another attempt to limit abortion care access in the landmark case, June Medical Services v. Russo. This latest case is a part of a larger, intentional effort to prevent those [...]
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Naina Khanna, Positive Women’s Network - USA, naina(at)pwn-usa.org As Calls for Justice Echo Around the United States, National Groups Led by Most-Policed Communities Affected by HIV and COVID-19 Join in Partnership The Health Not Prisons Collective Vows to [...]
June 15, 2020: It’s time to celebrate! Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that Tile VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, also prohibits discrimination on [...]
June 5, 2020 Today marks another HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (#HLTSAD). Even as we celebrate the longevity, resilience, and incredible achievements of so many long-term survivors--many of whom never expected to live more than a few months at the [...]
*** Content warnings: anti-Black racism, violence, pain, killing of Black people by the police, lack of accountability by the State, KKK *** June 2, 2020PWN family,We love you.We have been rocked and our hearts are broken by the footage of George [...]
June 1, 2020: PWN Pennsylvania has been active in their community for years. Since 2018, they have been registering new voters, educating their community about elections and voter rights, and mobilizing the voters they've registered and engaged with to get [...]
May 10, 2020Dear PWN Family, 2020 has been quite the year so far, huh? We know that this Mother's Day may be different from last year or the year before for many of us. We may not be getting to [...]
April 28, 2020: ICW, GNP+ and PWN-USA mourn the loss of all of our former Board member and community champion Deloris Dockrey, who passed due to complications with COVID-19. For anyone that knew Deloris she was a ray of light [...]
April 17, 2020: Even in the best of times, cisgender and transgender women living with HIV are disproportionately vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV): 55% report having experienced IPV in their lives, twice the rate of women more generally. In [...]
On Monday, April 13, 2020, PWN's policy team and guest panelist Jessica Pinckney from In Our Own Voice answered questions submitted by PWN members and allies about everything related to COVID-19--the disease caused by the novel coronavirus--and the [...]
April 1, 2020: It’s party time, people! We get to see and participate in a rare and wonderful event. Something that only happens once every ten years. Something that could help ensure your community has its fair share of political [...]
March 23, 2020 Dear PWN Family, Ten years ago today, something monumental happened. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, it meant--for the first time in this nation's history--that insurance companies could [...]
March 13, 2020Dear PWN Family,Recent weeks have been full of news—some of it confusing and contradictory—about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization this past Wednesday.We have heard that PWN members are [...]
March 10, 2020 -- In observance of today’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), ACT NOW: END AIDS (ANEA), calls on every 2020 Presidential candidate to actively include input from women and girls living with and vulnerable to [...]
The Blacker the Plan: Black AIDS Institute’s groundbreaking new report challenges HIV advocates to address anti-Blackness, invest in Black communities, end disparities in health care access, and build capacity in the Black community to respond to the epidemic. Feb. 7, 2020: [...]
The training academy, scheduled for May 30 – June 2 in Columbus, OH, will inspire and build the advocacy skills of hundreds of HIV advocates“As a survivor of HIV criminalization, seeing so many people from all across the world wanting [...]
The new Medicaid “block grant” option will lower quality of and access to care for the most vulnerableJanuary 30, 2020: Whether it’s routine like strep throat or scary like cancer, illness reminds us that at our core, we’re all human. [...]
January 16, 2020: “I didn’t know too much about PWN, but I wanted to empower Latin women. Now I know so much!” This was the reaction of just one of the twelve women living with HIV who attended [...]
December 17, 2019: All work has dignity, and every human being has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) unequivocally supports sex workers and their right to bodily autonomy. Our advocacy is grounded in human rights and social justice, [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: [email protected] The program, a continuation and expansion of the popular #PWNCares series, will provide opportunities for service and care providers to connect women diagnosed with HIV with a supportive network. December 16, 2019: Positive Women’s Network [...]
Violence and oppression have devastating consequences for our bodies, hearts, minds, relationships and our movement. Transforming this requires a commitment from each of us. December 1, 2019: Every World AIDS Day, HIV re-emerges in the headlines, as we pay homage [...]
November 20, 2019: For 20 years, November 20 has been observed as Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day for for various communities to come together to honor the lives of transgender people that were lost to violence. PWN-USA envisions [...]
November 7, 2019: On Tuesday, a number of U.S. states held elections that may have transformed their political landscape in advance of 2020. Want to know what happened without spending the day searching the news? Positive Women’s Network - USA [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: [email protected] Positive Women’s Network Action Fund Launches 12-month Get Out The HIV Vote Plan Following a five-day intensive training on electoral organizing, leaders from 10 states leave fired up and ready to mobilize the HIV [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org Positive Women’s Network – USA Kicks Off Organizing for Power: Road to 2020 Electoral Organizing Effort with a Five-Day Intensive Bootcamp Eleven teams from ten states, all led by women and people of trans experience [...]
TODAY, October 23, 2019, is Positive Women's Network - USA's sixth annual Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. Sign On to Endorse the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV More [...]
October 10, 2019: A month after the 2019 U.S. Conference on AIDS, we asked some of our member spokespeople what was still on their mind from the conference.One recurring theme was the protest on stage during the plenary with CDC [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA LAUNCHES 2020 HIV VOTER ENGAGEMENT PLAN The intensive, multi-state voter engagement plan will leverage the power of people living with and affected by HIV to activate communities historically ignored by [...]
July 30, 2019: Today, we are honoring a true shero.Waheedah Shabazz-El, founding member of Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) and our first-ever organizing director, is retiring from her role with PWN to move on to the next phase in her [...]
Calling advocates and organizers for a Summer Saturdays brunch-time web-based training series sponsored by Positive Women’s Network - USA. BYOB! Register here! Organizing is a long term approach to developing power as a community. It looks beyond policy campaigns, election cycles, [...]
May 24, 2019: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule reinterpreting the scope of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Section 1557 is the non-discrimination section of the ACA. It bars health [...]
State Violence Won’t End Interpersonal Violence. What Will?by Kelly Flannery, PWN If/When/How Reproductive Justice HIV Legal FellowMay 23, 2019: Over 60% of women living with HIV in the U.S. have experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. [...]
May 16, 2019: Dear PWN community,We’re furious and ready to fight. Are you with us? Yesterday, the governor of Alabama signed into law the most restrictive abortion ban in U.S. history, making abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy. [...]
April 12, 2019: Today, the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military went into effect. The ban is reminiscent of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which was repealed in 2011, in that it allows transgender troops to [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174 In “Be Your Own Best Advocate,” women living with HIV share their experiences navigating frustrating doctors’ visits, offer tips and encouragementApril 2, 2019: Engagement and retention in care are critical following an HIV diagnosis. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174The year-long, nonpartisan voter engagement and mobilization strategy will be led by women and transgender people living with HIV April 1, Washington, DC: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national network of women and people [...]
March 27, 2019: This week, the Trump administration signaled that it will argue for the complete invalidation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national membership body of women and people of trans experience living with [...]
March 8, 2019: As March 10 rolls around each year, organizations stage events, issue statements, and pump out tweets for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). The day is important to observe: Nearly four decades into the epidemic, [...]
Online Join PWN-USA Membership Engagement Coordinator Evany Turk online for a special #NWGHAAD Facebook Live about why we should be talking about #Medicare4All instead of condoms for all! Find Our Members in [...]
by Kelly Flannery and Naina KhannaMarch 7, 2019: International Women’s Day has historically called attention to social, economic, and political power imbalances based on gender around the globe. March 8, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN-USA), a national advocacy organization [...]
February 27, 2019: PWN-USA Virginia State Lead Deirdre Johnson is one busy advocate. Since the HIV Is Not a Crime III National Training Academy in Indianapolis last June, she has been collaborating with fellow advocates and activists in her home [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174Positive Women’s Network – USA Invites Women Living with HIV to an Honest Conversation About the Ups and Downs of Dating with HIVThe latest installment in the #PWNCares multimedia series will launch Feb. 14 [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, 347.553.5174, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.orgDesigned as a comprehensive, multimedia how-to guide and toolkit, it starts with the basics while offering resources and tips for seasoned advocates. January 24, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to roll [...]
January 15, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for the third year of our Policy Fellowship for Women and People of Trans Experience Living with HIV. The goal of the 9-month Fellowship is to increase [...]
Joint Statement from the United States People Living with HIV Caucus and HIVenas Abiertas, Positive Women’s Network-USA, Positively Trans, Sero Project, The Reunion Project and Thrive SSContact: Devin Hursey, US People Living with HIV Caucus: [email protected] 816.872.2051Octavia Lewis, Positively [...]
December 5, 2018: We are thrilled to announce that Arneta Rogers, PWN’s first ever Policy Director, is moving on to do (even more) great things! Although we will miss her, we are so excited about Arneta’s next steps. Arneta built [...]
**Media Advisory for Orangeburg, SC, Monday 12/3**Contact: Pat Kelly, 803-747-6046World AIDS Day will be observed on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, at Orangeburg Town Square with a candlelight vigil to begin at 6pm with a program “Living Beyond Your Status” to [...]
Sanctuary (n): a place of refuge and protectionNovember 30, 2018: The AIDS legacy is built on creating sanctuary. When a mysterious epidemic that researchers did not yet understand and politicians did not yet dare name aloud claimed the lives of [...]
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