The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.By: Myra Ann Franks, PWN-AL outreach coordinatorSeptember 29, 2023Several years after my diagnosis, my case manager said [...]
Sign up to receive these monthly updates in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥Hot Topic: The BudgetThe U.S. narrowly avoided another federal government shutdown. Congress [...]
Subscribe to receive news like this from PWN in your inbox!We are excited to announce that we are seeking visionary and strategic leaders to build on Naina and Venita's legacy and step into the role of PWN’s Co-Executive Directors! We are looking [...]
Subscribe for #PWNVotes updates in your inbox!What time is it? Election time! Yep, elections don’t just happen in even years.Local and state elections are just as important as congressional midterms and presidential elections, sometimes even more so, as life-changing policies [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.by: Marcya GullatteSeptember 20, 2023HIV is not a crime, or is it?As of 2022, thirty-five states have [...]
Sign up to receive these monthly updates in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.🔥Hot Topic: The Supreme Court is teed up, once again, for [...]
Subscribe for emails from PWN like this one in your inbox!We are writing with big news to share. After more than 15 years of helping to steward Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), Naina Khanna (they/she), founding co-executive director of PWN, will be [...]
Black women have always been the backbone of the HIV movement, fighting battles on multiple fronts despite being underpaid, systemically undervalued, and invisiblized. It is long past time for Black women to be given their flowers for all they’ve done. This [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.🔥Hot Topic: Budget and AppropriationsThe federal budget [...]
June 19, 2023Today Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) commemorates Juneteenth, in recognition of the emancipation of Black people enslaved across the United States. In the spirit of celebrating and honoring Black women, we want to express our gratitude and give flowers [...]
#HIVResists May Monthly Policy UpdateWas this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥Hot [...]
(Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up to receive quarterly updates from the HNP Collective!)The Health Not Prisons Collective is an intersectional national initiative launched in 2020 by Counter Narrative Project (CNP), Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), Sero Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement’s Liberation Way off to a powerful startPWN’s third annual flagship day to Celebrate and Honor Black Women [...]
Colorado is a model for what is possible when the country is stripping away reproductive freedoms and becoming more violent against Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and people of color and LGBTQ+ folks. Colorado is leading the way to strengthen abortion access [...]
Congratulations to PWN's May 2023 Shero of the Month: Myra Ann Franks of Alabama!Shero of the Month is back after a long hiatus, and we started an exciting new tradition! The last Shero of the Month has the honor of [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!PWN’s Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement is back and it’s bigger, Blacker, and better than ever!Join Positive Women’s Network-USA for the 3rd [...]
#HIVResists April Monthly Policy UpdateWas this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. Mifepristone [...]
April 24, 2023—Last Friday, the Supreme Court granted a stay to maintain nationwide access to a safe, effective and commonly-used medication abortion drug, mifepristone (“mife”), which is used along with misoprostol (“miso”) to terminate pregnancies. This was in response to a ruling earlier [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.BREAKING: Terrible Decision Reached in Braidwood [...]
The following is a transcript of a live conversation on Trans Day of Visibility, March 31st, 2023. Facilitated by Antoinette Jones, National Field Organizer of PWN-USA. Panelists are RISE Gender Justice Trainers Arianna Jones and Octavia Y. Lewis. Featuring a [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!February’s Hot Topic:Reproductive Health Rights and Justice – Lawsuit threatens access to Medication AbortionEvery month PWN puts out the Monthly Policy Update (MPU), tracking and analyzing [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!March 10, 2023– today marks the 18th annual observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD). At PWN, NWGHAAD is an opportunity to reflect [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) honors the second annual HIV Is Not A Crime (HINAC) Awareness Day; the leadership of our movement partner, The Sero Project, [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Positive Women’s Network-USA has been leading with love for fifteen years–leading in creating spaces, building power, and supporting the leadership of women, transgender and gender diverse folks living [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!February 7, 2023—This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Positive Women’s Network - USA condemns the racism that leads to an HIV epidemic disproportionately harming Black people [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥January’s Hot Topic🔥:PWN's Top 5 Big Policies that Impacted the Lives of People Living with HIV in 2022Every month PWN puts out the Monthly Policy Update [...]
(Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up to receive quarterly updates from the HNP Collective!)The Health Not Prisons Collective is an intersectional national initiative launched in 2020 by Counter Narrative Project (CNP), Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), Sero Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!My final day as PWN’s co-executive director is finally here. Serving in this role for the past four years has been one of the greatest honors [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!On World AIDS Day (December 1st), the U.S. PLHIV Caucus released our response to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy FederalImplementation Plan, Filling the Gaps: A PLHIV Networks response [...]
December 1st, 2022Today marks another World AIDS Day, a day in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic re-emerges in the public consciousness, if only for a brief moment. World AIDS Day presents a unique opportunity for the global community to mourn those [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥December’s Hot Topic🔥:PWN-USA Post-Midterm UpdatesPWN-USA members and volunteers threw down this election season with nonpartisan Get Out the Vote campaigns in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Texas, reaching close [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inboxJoin us in observing Transgender Day of Rememberance, November 20th, as we honor the lives and contributions of our siblings of trans experience we lost too [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Following her founding of the PWN-Greater Houston Area chapter, a four-year tenure on the PWN Board of Directors, two years of service as deputy director, and [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Happy National Get Out the HIV Vote Day! There are more 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States, and millions more connected to [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Early voting has started in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and many other states. We don’t know about you but we’re anxiously watching. 👀We’re not just watching though, we’re [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**PACHA UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES RESOLUTION TO CREATE SAFEGUARDS FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIVDirects CDC to Adapt Surveillance Activities to Better Protect Human Rights for Vulnerable CommunitiesOctober 18, 2022–PWN commends and applauds the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) for [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!I'm Samm, PWN's new Voter Engagement Program Manager. As you know, this election season is critical for our communities and PWN members are throwing down. I'm writing [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥September’s Hot Topic🔥:Access to Healthcare: Another terrible ruling out of Texas...In September 2022, a Texas federal district court judge, Reed O’Connor, ruled that the federal requirement [...]
About a month ago, the Health Not Prisons Collective (HNP) launched our Ready, Set, REPEAL campaign to get the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act (H.R. 6111) passed. Last week we started 11 days of action, one for each year that Congress [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!It's National Voter Registration Day!PWN-USA is the only PLHIV led organization running an on-the-ground, data-driven “Get Out The Vote” campaign in this critical election cycle. Our [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Reproductive Justice Teach-In: Join us on Sept. 8!On June 24th, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. States across the U.S. have already [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Ready, Set, REPEAL: Ending HIV Criminalization Cannot WaitThe Health Not Prisons Collective kicked off our Ready, Set, REPEAL campaign last week! The REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act (H.R. 6111) [...]
We recently caught up with PWN Greater Houston Area (GHA) chapter members Deborah Somoye and Selena Harbor to learn about their chapter’s mission, function, current projects, and how allies can support it. This month, we shine the Organizing Spotlight on [...]
August 20, 2022(Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up to receive updates from Positive Women's Network!)Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) commemorates the annual Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD). Launched by the Southern AIDS Coalition in 2019, SHAAD is [...]
(Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up to receive updates from the Health Not Prisons Collective here.)The Health Not Prisons (HNP) Collective is proud to present our Ready, Set, REPEAL Toolkit for Advocates. HNP is mobilizing folks across the [...]
A State by State Advocacy GuideCategory 1: Your state has modernized or repealed its laws criminalizing HIV. CA, CO, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NV, TX, VA, WACongrats! If your state is in gold, your state [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.by: Mira LernerAugust 12, 2022HIV decriminalization and reproductive justice are both grounded in the right to bodily [...]
Laws criminalizing HIV are harmful and increase risk of violence for people living with HIV – especially for communities most impacted by the epidemic and discriminatorily targeted by law enforcement.HIV criminalization (see “Key phrases” for definition) is a racial, gender, [...]
Bodily autonomy is the simple but radical concept that individuals have the right to control what does and does not happen to our bodies. When we have full bodily autonomy, not only are we empowered to make decisions about our [...]
Last year, networks of people living with HIV in the United States came together as the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus (HIV Caucus) to outline our policy agenda for the federal response to the HIV epidemic. Today, on the [...]