Join us for Naina's Outgoing Celebration!PWN's beloved founding co-director, Naina Khanna, will be stepping down from her position in February after 15 years. We are so grateful to her for envisioning and creating Positive Women's Network USA and her years [...]
Congratulations to December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas of Tennessee!Don’t miss this moving conversation between Lashanda and our previous Shero, Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania, as they discuss Lashanda's recent victory in the battle against HIV criminalization, her [...]
Subscribe for monthly policy updates 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 – National HIV/AIDS Strategy Interim ReportOn [...]
Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated December 1st as World AIDS Day (WAD), created to unite people across the globe in support of people living with HIV, to [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Another Powerful Voter Campaign In the Books! 7,594 voters contacted, 6,114 doors knocked, 3,292 supporters identified, 25+ volunteers and staff, 6 jam-packed weeks, 3 voter [...]
Subscribe for monthly policy updates 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: Genocide in Palestine The genocide in Palestine [...]
Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Join us in observing Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th), as we honor the lives of our siblings of trans experience we lost too soon, and celebrate the resistance and [...]
Congratulations to October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania!Don't miss this fascinating conversation between Grace and our previous Shero, Myra Franks of Alabama, as they discuss Grace's experiences as a journalist, a political asylee, a woman [...]
Today marks PWN's 10th annual Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, and we invite our community, accomplices, and partners to raise their voices in support of women, trans and cis, who face violence and say ENOUGH!!!We demand [...]
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.October 13, 2023--the following is an interview of Kenya Moussa, PWN-PA Chapter co-chair and Health Not Prisons [...]
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 [...]
Dear PWN community,Let's take a deep breath together; we have some hard stuff to talk about. Content warning for discussion of anti-trans* violence.In recent months, on virtual events that PWN hosted, we failed to interrupt trans-antagonism as it was happening [...]
Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) hosted the 3rd annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) on 08/18/23! This year we are Honoring Our Trailblazers - Black women who stand on the shoulders of so many powerful Black [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for! After years of power building in our communities, and months of deep conversations over phone and text, at the doors and at community events (we’ve contacted more than half a million voters!!) [...]
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 [...]