Dear community, On Monday, a St. Louis grand jury failed to bring charges against Ferguson County Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed 18-year old Michael Brown. This verdict is horrifying and devastating for Michael's family, and for folks in [...]
First-Ever National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women with HIV Observed on October 23 With Rallies, Ruckus-Raisings and Social Media Actions Across the US FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, oford.pwnusa@gmail.com / 347.553.5174 October 23, 2014 – Violence [...]
On October 23, join us in breaking the culture of violence against women with HIV and all women! Things You Can Do on the October 23 Day of Action: Change your Facebook and/or Twitter profile image to one of the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford - oford.pwnusa@gmail.com - 347.553.5174 October 10, 2014 - Today, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we congratulate the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on today's release of Updates on Efforts to Address the Intersections of HIV/AIDS, Violence [...]
PWN-USA members and staffers are all over the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) 2014, happening this week at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel in San Diego, CA – we’re presenting, exhibiting, speaking, and more! If you’re at the [...]
Lepena Reid, Janet Kitchen and Rose Todd, South Florida SPEAK UP! A National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV is just one week away! Here's everything you need to know, whether you're coming to the Summit or following [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford - oford.pwnusa@gmail.com - 347.553.5174 September 4, 2014 - Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) congratulates two of our members, Gina Brown of New Orleans and Grissel Granados of Los Angeles, on their recent appointments [...]
On October 23, 2014, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, PWN-USA is spearheading a National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. Please join us for the first Day of Action planning call on Thursday, September 4, [...]
In just one short month, 200 women living with HIV from every region and corner of the United States will gather in Fort Walton Beach, FL, for SPEAK UP! A National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV. Lepena Reid, [...]
In just one short month, 200 women living with HIV from every region and corner of the United States will gather in Fort Walton Beach, FL, for SPEAK UP! A National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV. Lepena Reid, [...]
Contact: Olivia Ford - oford.pwnusa@gmail.com - 347.553.5174 July 16, 2014 – Last Friday, University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) researchers released study results that add to the growing body of literature surrounding healing from trauma as an essential component of HIV care for [...]
By Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Venita Ray and Dena Hughes Elisha Henson. Readers may already be aware of the tragic May murder of Elisha Henson, a 30-year-old Texas mother of two who was brutally strangled and dumped into a lake a few months [...]
By Teresa Sullivan, PWN-USA Board of Directors Teresa Sullivan. “We, as women living with HIV, envision a life free from violence, coercion, and discrimination for all people. We, as women living with HIV, demand an end to the [...]
By Naimah Oneal, Regional Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Ohio Naimah Oneal. My name is Naimah Oneal; I am a mother, grandmother, auntie and lastly I am a woman living with HIV. I must say that I am truly living with HIV [...]
Positive Women’s Network – USA Mourns and Condemns the HIV-Related Murder of a Texas Woman Contact: Olivia Ford, PWN-USA - Brooklyn, NY - oford.pwnusa@gmail.com - 347.553.5174 Venita Ray - Houston, TX [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA is turning SIX on June 17! Can you believe it? For our birthday, Elton John AIDS Foundation gave us a challenge grant of $10,000 -- meaning EJAF will double every dollar we raise up to our [...]
Inclusion. Collaboration. Conflict resolution. Restorative justice. Nuance. Challenge. Coalition. Rage. Healing. Power. There was an energy in Grinnell, Iowa, last week as more than 150 dedicated advocates gathered for HIV Is Not a Crime: The Grinnell Gathering, from June 2-5, [...]
Yesterday, June 5, marked the first annual National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. Those who have lived several decades with HIV have advocated, fought, survived, thrived, faced immeasurable loss. This includes longtime supportive allies, activists, care providers and family members, [...]
May 15, 2014 -- Have you heard? Bigoted L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's latest target is people living with HIV, and HIV community leaders and media makers alike are not taking the bait. Sterling has recently been raked over the media [...]
May 15, 2014 -- Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a major step towards advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and choice, by releasing guidelines for the use of a daily HIV prevention pill: Truvada [...]
By Nancy Asha Molock, Regional Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Philadelphia Nancy Asha Molock. I attended AIDSWatch 2014 for the first time April 27-29. I had heard so much about it from other PWN-USA members, so I was elated to be awarded [...]
By Evany Turk Evany Turk. Women are a vital part of our community. Women wear lots of hats and control much of the household, and when a woman is diagnosed with HIV that doesn't stop. Unfortunately she now [...]
By Margot Kirkland-Isaac Margot Kirkland-Isaac. I was truly saddened when I received the news that the President's proposed 2015 budget sought to eliminate Ryan White Part D. It is unacceptable to me to think that, after all these [...]
By Nancy Asha Molock, Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Philadelphia Asha sharing a moment with a new advocacy comrade at AIDSWatch. “HIV is preventable” ... there is something about that saying that just doesn't sit well with me. Sometimes I would read it on [...]
On April 28 and 29, more than 300 HIV advocates descended on Washington, D.C., for AIDSWatch, the largest annual national constituent-based advocacy event focused on HIV in the U.S. -- two days of trainings and visits with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, oford.pwnusa@gmail.com / 347.553.5174 March 26, 2014, New Orleans, LA - Just a few weeks ago, President Obama's budget for 2015 was released, proposing the elimination of Part D of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which provides [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, oford.pwnusa@gmail.com / 510.333.4262 New York City, March 10, 2014 – Today, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Positive Women's Network - United States of America (PWN-USA) is Sharing Knowledge and Taking Action to [...]
Dear Friend, Far too often, women living with HIV are talked about, instead of talked to, at the tables where decisions are made about our lives. PWN-USA's mission is to shift that balance: to prepare and involve all women living [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, oford.pwnusa@gmail.com 510.681.1169 February 14, 2014, Washington, D.C. -- This Valentine’s Day, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy showed their love for women by formally launching the recommendations report of the Interagency Federal [...]
Every day, PWN-USA inspires, informs and mobilizes women living with HIV to advocate for changes that improve our lives and uphold our rights. In 2013, we went through an extensive strategic planning process and listened to hundreds of stakeholders. Over [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Sonia Rastogi, sbrastogi@gmail.com December 1, 2013 Oakland, CA – “Violence takes many forms, including but not limited to physical and sexual violence. Violence includes laws that regulate our bodies and who we choose to love. Violence [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Board Member and woman openly living with HIV One cannot deny the devastating impact of physical bruising, scarring, mutilation or death of women and girls due to violence because these unsightly images represent some of the [...]
Check out World AIDS Day events hosted, organized, and supported by PWNers around the country! Stay updated, we will continue to update this list. December 1: PWN-CO and Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS is relaunching Compassion: Ending the Stigma Campaign [...]
By: Loren Jones As the oldest and only girl born to a welfare mom who had six children in nine years , way back in 1952, in North Philadelphia, I long ago accepted violence as a way of life. I [...]
PWN-USA Releases Groundbreaking Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for US WLHIV To read full report click here Despite significant advances in treatment and reduction in infectiousness, people living with HIV continue to face discrimination in the health care system, [...]
This summer, as part of a project to assess the state of sexual and reproductive health and rights for women living with HIV in the US, PWN-USA launched a national survey. The survey was taken by nearly 200 women living [...]
UNSPOKEN: Sexuality, Romance, and Reproductive Freedom for Women Living with HIV in the United States Findings from a National Survey by Positive Women’s Network – United States of America (PWN-USA) Summary: To better understand the current experiences of women living [...]
PWN-USA Applauds Release of White House Recommendations to Address HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities September 6, 2013, New Orleans, LA -- Today, the Interagency Federal Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women [...]
The Evolution of HIV Stigma: An Interview with PWN-USA's Board Chair Barb Cardell, from the Atlas NewsletterReposted from the Atlas Newsletter's website"HIV stigma has been prevalent since the virus’ outbreak in the 1980s. While decades of medical advances have changed [...]
Hi everyone, We are getting ready for the 2013 US Conference on AIDS and look forward to seeing you all there! Here's a listing of some events and sessions featuring PWNers. Hope to catch you at some of them! Throughout [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA is conducting a community-based research project to better understand the romantic and sexual lives of US women living with HIV, and how HIV-positive women, including transgender women, perceive ourselves with regard to sex and relationships. [...]
Dear community - As you may know, in early 2013 the Positive Women's Network - USA transitioned to become an independent and autonomous organization, governed entirely by women living with HIV and accountable to our national constituency of HIV-positive women. [...]
What would it mean for young people with HIV to see themselves on magazine covers and in the media? What would it mean for young people afraid of getting tested, or figuring out how to negotiate condom use to see [...]
WORLD Contact: Cynthia Carey-Grant, Executive Director, ccarey-grant@womenhiv.org, 510.986.0340 PWN-USA Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director, naina.khanna.work@gmail.com, 510.681.1169 Women’s HIV Advocacy Organizations Continue Building Leadership Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) and the Positive Women’s Network-United States of America [...]
Dear Mr. Perry, We write as people living with HIV and their allies to express our deep disappointment with your latest film, Temptation. This disappointment is made all the greater because you have done much that can be applauded. Audiences [...]
This Mother’s Day, the Positive Women’s Network – USA reclaims and redefines motherhood from our perspective. As a network for all women living with HIV, including transgender women, we are: Women who have been discouraged, shamed, and forbidden from having [...]
This full article ran on poz.com on April 19, 2013 by Naina Khanna I have been sitting with and following the reactions to Tyler Perry's Temptation over the last couple weeks. Within the HIV community, and outside of it. Within the feminist community, and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Waheedah Shabazz-El, Founding Member, iamshabazz@yahoo.com, (267) 231-2647 Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director, sbrastogi@gmail.com, (408) 306-6805 Tyler Perry's Temptation Sentences People with HIV to a Lifetime of Stigma and Isolation April 16, 2013, New York, NY – “Tyler [...]
By Susan Mull Don’t you wish pop culture would critique the latest Supreme Court antics surrounding the Voting Rights Act? After all, aren’t we all more than a little appalled by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia saying that a critical [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director Dear Community, Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA) congratulates our inaugural Board of Directors and elected Officers. PWN-USA's Board members bring decades of diverse experience working on HIV [...]