July 29, 2021: Missouri recently modernized the state's HIV exposure laws--an effort that took over 10 years on the part of local advocates, legislators and other stakeholders. PWN Board Co-Chair LaTrischa Miles began her organizing efforts to reform Missouri's HIV [...]
June 30, 2021: What do you do when you know the laws target a specific group of people? How do you amplify the concerns of the people who are impacted by those laws? What if you are a part of [...]
June 23, 2021: PWN is deeply saddened by the passing of our brilliant, well-respected, and loved founding member Loren Jones earlier this month. Loren was a long-standing member of PWN’s board of directors, a pioneer in HIV advocacy, a prison [...]
Many HIV activists have expressed concern about molecular HIV surveillance (MHS), a practice that utilizes and shares data from people living with HIV without our consent. In June 2020, the AIDS United Public Policy Committee adopted this position statement calling [...]
June 2, 2021Are you a person living with HIV who wants to improve the quality of life for other people living with HIV? Do you want to get involved with like-minded advocates and networks of people living with HIV? Do [...]
People living with HIV know that one step in leading a healthy life is having access to life-saving medication. What do you do when access to those medications is taken away from the people who most need them? If you [...]
March 31, 2021Dear PWN community,Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and building a world where it’s safe for transgender and gender non-conforming people to live their truth has never been more important. None of us are free until [...]
In March 2021, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held a hearing requesting stakeholders provide public comment answering two questions:What are the most meaningful actions that can be taken to implement the HIV National Strategy Plan and improve implementation [...]
PWN is thrilled to host the first-ever Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day this March 12, 2021! There is still time to sign on to the pledge to commit to celebrating and honoring Black women in [...]
Like you, we have been horrified by the devastation wrought by the winter storm in Texas and the Gulf region, and the failure of Texas political leadership to respond. We are not confused about the root causes here - climate [...]
Deadline Extension: Sunday, 2/21! Apply for the PWN Policy Fellowship Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is still accepting applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans [...]
January 29, 2021: When you could have been doing anything else after a very, stressful election, you chose to take up the mantle and continue to educate, engage, and mobilize voters in Georgia. Alongside our partners from Women Engaged in [...]
January 22, 2021: Are you a Black woman or person of trans experience living with HIV or involved in the HIV community? Get your creative juices flowing and enter an original piece of artwork for PWN’s inaugural Celebrate & Honor [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA sent the following letter to the Biden-Harris administration.Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) is the only national organization truly led by and for women living with HIV (WLHIV), inclusive of women of transgender experience. Our mission is [...]
Art by Glori Tuitt + @fwdtogether We Read Their NamesWe read the names of precious lives lostTo open our eyes to the enormous costOf bigotry, religion, ignorance, and hate,And honor those who too soon met their fate.Sisters [...]
September 30, 2020: With so much going on in our country today, it can be easy to forget that the most crucial election of our lifetime is only a little over a month away. Civil uprisings are continuing to happen [...]
PWN Condemns the Trump Administration's Latest Attacks on Reproductive Justice Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s newly reported campaign of terror against immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). September 18, 2020: On [...]
July 27, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things in our day-to-day lives. The response to the pandemic by many elected officials in America, from state houses to the White House, has been dismal. But elections are [...]
July 1, 2020: You stand in the rain. You stand in the heat. The line is long. You are hungry and thirsty. You are frustrated. You are standing too close for comfort to someone in the midst of the COVID-19 [...]
April 30, 2020: How are you centering the voices of women of trans experience of color living with HIV? How does your organization support the leadership of folks of trans experience? What is currently underway to ensure that women of [...]
April 10, 2020 The Honorable Jerrold NadlerChairmanHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515The Honorable Lindsey GrahamChairmanSenate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. SenateWashington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Jim JordanRanking MemberHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House [...]
March 23, 2020: It is almost impossible to have a conversation these days without COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, creeping in. Before so many people around the world really understood the seriousness of the new disease, JD [...]
February 28, 2020: A year after President Trump gave his State of the Union Address where he announced the initiative Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EtE), Black AIDS Institute (BAI) published its response to the call from [...]
January 29, 2020: Imagine being a woman living with HIV, truly apprehensive or extremely cautious when it comes to sexual intimacy. After all, you've been hearing for years that you have to use condoms every single time. Imagine the spark [...]
January 13, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to launch applications for the fourth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the third graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2019-2020 Fellows successfully completed a 9-month-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
November 22, 2019: Women Engaged is a pioneer in the reproductive justice movement as one of the very few organizations in Atlanta, Georgia to use an integrated voter engagement model to not only increase civic engagement but to build power [...]
October 24, 2019: This is really happening! PWN-USA is going on the road to Atlanta, Georgia, for our in-person electoral organizing bootcamp starting this Sunday, October 27! Teams from 11 key geographic locations who are part of PWN’s cutting-edge new [...]
September 30, 2019: HIV has long been misunderstood by the legal system. There are currently laws in 33 states criminalizing people living with HIV for exposure to HIV, nondisclosure of HIV and/or transmission. PWNers in Florida understand how these draconian [...]
August 29, 2019: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in Washington, D.C. representing women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these conversations and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or at home, you [...]
PWN member Lisa Britt is interviewed by local news media at the Aug. 1 community meeting August 29, 2019: The federal housing program, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), was created in recognition that health outcomes for people [...]
August 12, 2019: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) unequivocally condemns the latest development in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against immigrant communities. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule seeking to further intimidate and punish some [...]
July 30, 2019: PWN members in Alabama--or PWN Alabama Voices, as they call their group--have been busy supporting the mobilization efforts of organizations such as Alabama Arise around attacks on SNAP benefits.They are advocating against the bill recently signed into law in [...]
Para leer en español haz clic aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennifer Johnson-Avril, Housing Works 646-732-1573 [email protected] Khanna, Positive Women’s Network-USA 510-681-1169 [email protected] Strub, Sero Project 646-642-4915 [email protected] 26, 2019: During a Congressional hearing on Thursday July 25, 2019, Chief Brian Hastings [...]
June 26, 2019: No matter what we are doing either individually as advocates or whether we are a member of a team or coalition, we all need support. We all need to feel included and valued even when we disagree [...]
May 30, 2019: The staff, Board of Directors, and membership body at Positive Women's Network - USA want to express our heartfelt condolences for the sudden, unexpected loss of one of our most celebrated sisters, Mary Bowman, at only 30 [...]
May 31, 2019: We all know that young people deserve comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sexual education in school so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual health and reproductive options. Seeing that the existing 2013 law requiring comprehensive sex ed [...]
April 24, 2019: PWN Texas has been busy this legislative session! They have been leading the Texas Strike Force, a group of concerned community members ready to take action, and a rapid response team tracking both helpful and harmful legislation, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the second graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2018-2019 fellows successfully completed a year-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
March 27, 2019: In 2015, Pat Kelly, founding member of Positive Women’s Network, held a discussion with the regional chapter of South Carolina about efforts to repeal or modernize HIV criminalization laws in other states in the U.S. That conversation [...]
Venita Ray, Deputy DirectorFebruary 07, 2019: As a Black woman living with HIV, I always approach National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) with a little bit of dread. Each year, we, hear the same numbers: “Black folks represent 12% [...]
January 22, 2019: The Supreme Court of the United States has given the Trump administration the green light to discriminate against people of trans experience. Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) strongly condemns this latest assault on the rights and dignity of [...]
November 27, 2018: PWN-USA members and staff will be at the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in beautiful Los Angeles, California, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations if you [...]
October 30, 2018: Today we heard some shocking news. Trump announced plans to issue an executive order that would purport to revoke the right to citizenship for children born on US soil to non-US citizens, often called “birthright citizenship,” in [...]
Applications are now closed. Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) is offering a scholarship to increase participation by women and people of trans experience living with HIV, with a focus on survivors of violence in all forms, in the 2018 Biomedical HIV [...]
August 29, 2018: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in beautiful Orlando, Florida, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or [...]
Contact: Naina Khanna, [email protected], 510.681.1169A renowned HIV advocate, attorney and former member of PWN-USA’s Board of Directors, Venita brings her passion and expertise in policy, racial justice and equity to the nation’s premier advocacy organization for women living with HIVOakland, [...]
Take the pledge! No #AIDS2020 in Trump's USA! #AIDS2020ForAll AIDS2020ForAll.org Sign on and let IAS know that if all are not welcome, then none of us are. We must stand with those of us living with and impacted by [...]
July 17, 2018: Members and staff at Positive Women’s Network - USA are excited and humbled to be representing U.S. women living with HIV at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam all week. Either in Amsterdam or from home, you [...]
This statement is also available in Spanish. A call to marshal our full resources, voice and political power in support of immigrants targeted by hateful policies and dangerous, dehumanizing rhetoric. Borders are imaginary political lines drawn to consolidate power and resources. [...]
