10-27-2022 We are disappointed to let you know that PA HB 103 has passed the Pennsylvania state legislature with broad, bipartisan support. HB 103 is now in the Governor’s hands. Governor Tom Wolf has 10 days to sign HB [...]
40 years into the HIV epidemic, networks of people living with HIV demand a response that uplifts dignity, human rights, and wellness The policy agenda, written collaboratively by member networks of the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus, details concrete recommendations [...]
February 26, 2021: The disaster that has unfolded across the South and particularly in Texas over the past couple of weeks is anything but natural. It’s a catastrophe of manmade proportions—the perfect storm of climate crisis, structural racism, unchecked capitalism, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
October 26, 2018Greetings everyone, Check out this helpful update and analysis from PWN’s Anand Kalra. I know there is a lot of confusion about exactly what this "Trump Administration Erases Trans People" thing is. This is my breakdown of what [...]
Dear PWN Community,Today, October 23, 2018, is the fifth National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. This year’s Day of Action falls at a time when a crucial part of our community—people of trans experience—are [...]
September 28, 2018: Last weekend, in its latest attack on the most vulnerable Americans, the Trump administration announced a proposal that, if implemented, would intimidate and seek to punish immigrants for accessing--or even being perceived as potentially needing--nutrition, housing, and medical [...]
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 [...]
**For Immediate Release** Contact: Arpita Appannagari, CHLP, (212) 430-6733 HIV Criminal Law Reform: A Call to Action Racial Justice, Criminal Justice and HIV Organizations Call for an HIV Criminal Law Reform Movement Grounded in Principles of [...]
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 [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contacts: JD Davids, jdavids13(at)gmail.com, +1.646.431.7525Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, +1.347.553.5174Cecilia Chung, cecilia(at)transgenderlawcenter.org, +1.415.902.0216George Ayala, gayala(at)mpactglobal.org, +1.213.268.1777 Activists’ Call to Move AIDS 2020 Out of United States Gains SteamFrom the podium to the street, researchers, health care providers, sex workers and others call for action; #AIDS2020ForAll offers [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Cecilia Chung +1.415.902.0216, [email protected] Naina Khanna +1.510.681.1169, [email protected] George Ayala +1.213.268.1777, [email protected] AREA, U.S. AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND 2020 INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE BE REMOVED FROM U.S. They cite danger for potential participants and human rights violations in the U.S. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA RELEASES POLICY AGENDA UPDATED TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2018 AND BEYONDThe updated policy agenda, over a year in the making, is responsive to the current political [...]
July 14, 2018: What does immigration have to do with women living with HIV? According to PWN-USA Texas members—everything.Tana Pradia and Jessi Mona Cartwright-Biggs hopped on a bus to Brownsville, Texas, June 28 to protest the administration’s immigration policy of [...]
June 19, 2018: The long-anticipated HIV Is Not a Crime III Training Academy, organized by the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network – USA, took place June 3-6 at IUPUI in Indianapolis. What a remarkable three days it was!Anchored by [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Ken Pinkela, ken.pinkela(at)seroproject.com, or Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.orgHIV Is Not a Crime III Training Academy’s Program Paves the Path for Getting to Zero Prosecutions The just-released program includes six plenaries and 25 breakout sessions from nearly 80 presenters, majority [...]
Trump Administration’s Domestic Gag Rule Would Take Away Our Right to Choose--and Our Health CareMay 21, 2018: Positive Women’s Network - USA strongly condemns the Trump-Pence administration’s latest attack on sexual and reproductive health, rights and bodily autonomy of low-income people, [...]
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. [...]
March 14, 2018 -- When it comes to the widely misunderstood, complex issue of HIV criminalization, media can be a powerful tool--or a blunt-force weapon. And so today, as people around the world living with HIV continue to be criminalized [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 13, 2018 Contact:Cecilia Chung, San Francisco, CA 415.902.0216 | [email protected] Walker, Atlanta GA 443.703.6082 | [email protected] Khanna, Oakland, CA 510.681.1169 | [email protected] Spieldenner, San Diego, CA 323.620.3432 | [email protected] 50 organizations stand in strong opposition to holding the [...]
photo credit: Johnnie Kornegay Leer en español aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Leaders of Color in the HIV Movement Form A Strategic Working Group To Advance the Movement Towards Racial JusticeCONTACT: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169, [email protected] orCharles Stephens, (404) 550-4697, [email protected] 21, 2018: In July 2017, [...]
by Arneta Rogers, Policy Director, Positive Women’s Network - USAFebruary 7, 2018: Today marks the second National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day we have observed under the most openly racist administration in decades. The legacy of slavery, violence against and systemic [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Ken Pinkela, [email protected] or Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected] February 5, 2018: SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network - USA are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 HIV is Not a Crime III National [...]
December 15, 2017: PWN-USA is excited to announce the launch of two new resources for 2018 as part of our continued efforts to reform HIV criminalization laws nationwide and to support people living with HIV targeted by those laws.The first resource [...]
TDOR artwork courtesy of Forward Together. Visit their page for more artwork and writing by trans artists!Today, November 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR as it is commonly called. The transgender community, especially transgender women of [...]
The Framework to Build a Racially Just and Strategic HIV Movement Addresses Root Causes of the Epidemic and Lights a New Way Forward **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contacts: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169; [email protected] Charles Stephens, (404) 550-4697; [email protected] November 9, 2017: What could radical leadership look like [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Ken Pinkela, [email protected] or Jennie Smith-Camejo [email protected] November 1, 2017: Sero Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are thrilled to announce the opening of scholarship applications for HIV Is Not A Crime III National Training Academy, being [...]
October 23, 2017 Did you know? Women living with HIV are twice as likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV) and five times as likely to experience lifetime sexual assault as the general population of women. Data also shows that women of trans experience, [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174 The new initiative, featuring a series of short videos in which real women living with HIV address important topics, followed by virtual coffee table chats offering real-time conversation and Q&A, will launch Oct. 23 October [...]
September 28, 2017: In Washington, D.C., and in states across the country, PWN-USA members stood up and fought hard to protect the promise of the Affordable Care Act from the latest attack, the Graham-Cassidy bill. It was the worst of a [...]
September 26: It’s been a long, hard few months. You deserve kudos–and a break. We thought we had killed the ACA repeal bill in the House in March, only to have it resurface in April and pass the House in [...]
Updated Sept. 10 September 8, United States Conference on AIDS, 2017. Washington, D.C.: Black men wait 32% longer to cross the street than white men, according to a study from Portland, Oregon. Males in their 20s, identically dressed, had very distinct [...]
August 8: We did it! Through people power, we killed the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act! At least for now, and just by one vote. We have lots of work ahead of us. All members of Congress are home for the August [...]
May 11, 2017: This Sunday will mark the fourth Mother’s Day that Tracy Johnson has had to spend separated from Michael, her youngest son. That’s how long he has been incarcerated under Missouri’s archaic and draconian HIV criminalization laws, following a [...]
A Joint Statement from Counter Narrative Project, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, Positive Women’s Network – USA, TransLatin@ Coalition, Treatment Action Group, the US People Living with HIV Caucus and Venas Abiertas Leer en español aquí you have to understand, that [...]
March 16, 2017: For National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD), PWNers from coast to coast hosted and participated in events, in person and online, raising awareness and educating our communities about HIV and its impact on women and girls and [...]
March 10, 2017: Today is National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day. In honor of the approximately 300,000 women living with HIV in the United States, please join Positive Women's Network - USA in asserting and celebrating the bodily autonomy of [...]
An Open Letter from Positive Women’s Network – USA in Observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) February 7, 2017: From the moment the winner of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was announced, many of us of African descent have [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** February 6, 2017 CONTACT: Jason Howe, Equality California PHONE: 323-848-9801 MOBILE: 415-595-9245 EMAIL: [email protected] Senator Wiener and Assemblymember Gloria Announce Bill to Modernize Discriminatory HIV Criminalization Laws Equality California, Positive Women’s Network – USA, ACLU and others join in [...]
Art by Jennifer Maravillas January 20, 2017: Today, a thin-skinned, authoritarian narcissist who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes is being sworn into the highest office in the United States, and arguably the most powerful position [...]
