Join PWN’s regional chapters and state leads to meet the women and trans folks living with HIV leading the way in their communitiesJuly 23, 2021: Everyone in the HIV community knows that the women and trans folks of Positive Women’s [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
**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 [...]
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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ken Pinkela: [email protected] or Jennie Smith-Camejo: [email protected] May 15, 2017: Building on the amazing success of the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy last year, the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are pleased [...]
September 19, 2016 - It's hard to believe, but we're only about a week away from SPEAK UP! 2016 National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV. We'd like to thank our dedicated Summit Planning Committee for their many hours of time [...]
April 11, 2016: The HIV is Not a Crime II Training Academy will be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 17 – 20, 2016 – you can still register to be part of this transformative advocacy training experience! Join co-organizers PositiveWomen’s Network [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]
This piece is adapted from a version originally posted on Advocacy Without Borders’ blog. WE NEED YOUR HELP. BADLY. I have written before about HIV criminalization, here and here. Most recently, though, when I have written about it I have [...]
By Susan Mull Nikki Giovanni wrote a poem called “The New Yorkers.” This is the beginning of that poem: “In front of the bank building after six o’clock the gathering of the bag people begins. In cold weather they huddle [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Naina Khanna – Community Organizing is a long-term approach to achieving social change through collective action by changing the balance of power. In the process, the people most affected by an issue are supported to identify a problem and [...]
By Sonia Rastogi – The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), is a safety net that provides life-saving medications to people living with HIV. Due to a funding crisis, as of September 2010, 3,441 people are on waiting lists to access [...]
By Teresa Sullivan When I went to jail in 2005, one of the biggest problems that I had was at the medication window. One day when going to get my HIV medications at the window, I looked at the pills [...]
