In March 2021, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held a hearing requesting stakeholders provide public comment answering two questions:What are the most meaningful actions that can be taken to implement the HIV National Strategy Plan and improve implementation [...]
It's Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day! March 12, 2021 The day we've been counting down to since last fall is finally here: PWN's first annual Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day. [...]
March 8, 2021Greetings, PWN members and community,We are writing to you today with big news. Nearly thirteen years into the existence of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), we have transitioned to a co-directorship model. Venita Ray and Naina Khanna [...]
PWN is thrilled to host the first-ever Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day this March 12, 2021! There is still time to sign on to the pledge to commit to celebrating and honoring Black women in [...]
Like you, we have been horrified by the devastation wrought by the winter storm in Texas and the Gulf region, and the failure of Texas political leadership to respond. We are not confused about the root causes here - climate [...]
Deadline Extension: Sunday, 2/21! Apply for the PWN Policy Fellowship Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is still accepting applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans [...]
February 8, 2021: Folks, we have a new president--and with that, we have a whole lot of new executive orders. If you got a little lost in the flurry of papers coming out of the White House, you are not [...]
January 29, 2021: When you could have been doing anything else after a very, stressful election, you chose to take up the mantle and continue to educate, engage, and mobilize voters in Georgia. Alongside our partners from Women Engaged in [...]
January 22, 2021: Are you a Black woman or person of trans experience living with HIV or involved in the HIV community? Get your creative juices flowing and enter an original piece of artwork for PWN’s inaugural Celebrate & Honor [...]
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 [...]
January 8, 2021: Wednesday’s white supremacist failed coup in the U.S. Capitol was horrifying, scary, unprecedented – yet not unpredictable.The attack was not on a building. This was an attack on our people. The message of these insurrectionists, including those [...]
Art by Glori Tuitt + @fwdtogether We Read Their NamesWe read the names of precious lives lostTo open our eyes to the enormous costOf bigotry, religion, ignorance, and hate,And honor those who too soon met their fate.Sisters [...]
November 9, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on their election by a decisive majority of total votes cast and electoral college votes in the highest turnout election in U.S. [...]
November 6, 2020: We've got a lot of feelings right now.Our spirits are bruised, our anxiety high. We bear the scars of generations of trauma, the legacy of white supremacy and patriarchy. They drive us to continue to fight for [...]
October 1, 2020: Black women deserve the world. At Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN), this is central to everything we do, from the policies we advocate for to the way we do our work. And we think it’s high [...]
PWN Condemns the Trump Administration's Latest Attacks on Reproductive Justice Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s newly reported campaign of terror against immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). September 18, 2020: On [...]
July 27, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things in our day-to-day lives. The response to the pandemic by many elected officials in America, from state houses to the White House, has been dismal. But elections are [...]
July 1, 2020: You stand in the rain. You stand in the heat. The line is long. You are hungry and thirsty. You are frustrated. You are standing too close for comfort to someone in the midst of the COVID-19 [...]
June 1, 2020: PWN Pennsylvania has been active in their community for years. Since 2018, they have been registering new voters, educating their community about elections and voter rights, and mobilizing the voters they've registered and engaged with to get [...]
May 10, 2020Dear PWN Family, 2020 has been quite the year so far, huh? We know that this Mother's Day may be different from last year or the year before for many of us. We may not be getting to [...]
April 28, 2020: ICW, GNP+ and PWN-USA mourn the loss of all of our former Board member and community champion Deloris Dockrey, who passed due to complications with COVID-19. For anyone that knew Deloris she was a ray of light [...]
April 10, 2020 The Honorable Jerrold NadlerChairmanHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515The Honorable Lindsey GrahamChairmanSenate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. SenateWashington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Jim JordanRanking MemberHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House [...]
April 1, 2020: It’s party time, people! We get to see and participate in a rare and wonderful event. Something that only happens once every ten years. Something that could help ensure your community has its fair share of political [...]
January 29, 2020: Imagine being a woman living with HIV, truly apprehensive or extremely cautious when it comes to sexual intimacy. After all, you've been hearing for years that you have to use condoms every single time. Imagine the spark [...]
January 16, 2020: “I didn’t know too much about PWN, but I wanted to empower Latin women. Now I know so much!” This was the reaction of just one of the twelve women living with HIV who attended [...]
January 13, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to launch applications for the fourth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the third graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2019-2020 Fellows successfully completed a 9-month-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
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 [...]
September 30, 2019: HIV has long been misunderstood by the legal system. There are currently laws in 33 states criminalizing people living with HIV for exposure to HIV, nondisclosure of HIV and/or transmission. PWNers in Florida understand how these draconian [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA LAUNCHES 2020 HIV VOTER ENGAGEMENT PLAN The intensive, multi-state voter engagement plan will leverage the power of people living with and affected by HIV to activate communities historically ignored by [...]
August 29, 2019: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in Washington, D.C. representing women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these conversations and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or at home, you [...]
August 12, 2019: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) unequivocally condemns the latest development in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against immigrant communities. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule seeking to further intimidate and punish some [...]
July 30, 2019: Today, we are honoring a true shero.Waheedah Shabazz-El, founding member of Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) and our first-ever organizing director, is retiring from her role with PWN to move on to the next phase in her [...]
July 30, 2019: PWN members in Alabama--or PWN Alabama Voices, as they call their group--have been busy supporting the mobilization efforts of organizations such as Alabama Arise around attacks on SNAP benefits.They are advocating against the bill recently signed into law in [...]
Para leer en español haz clic aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennifer Johnson-Avril, Housing Works 646-732-1573 J.Johnson-Avril@housingworks.orgNaina Khanna, Positive Women’s Network-USA 510-681-1169 naina@pwn-usa.orgSean Strub, Sero Project 646-642-4915 sean.strub@seroproject.comJuly 26, 2019: During a Congressional hearing on Thursday July 25, 2019, Chief Brian Hastings [...]
June 26, 2019: No matter what we are doing either individually as advocates or whether we are a member of a team or coalition, we all need support. We all need to feel included and valued even when we disagree [...]
May 30, 2019: The staff, Board of Directors, and membership body at Positive Women's Network - USA want to express our heartfelt condolences for the sudden, unexpected loss of one of our most celebrated sisters, Mary Bowman, at only 30 [...]
May 31, 2019: We all know that young people deserve comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sexual education in school so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual health and reproductive options. Seeing that the existing 2013 law requiring comprehensive sex ed [...]
May 16, 2019: Dear PWN community,We’re furious and ready to fight. Are you with us? Yesterday, the governor of Alabama signed into law the most restrictive abortion ban in U.S. history, making abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy. [...]
April 24, 2019: PWN Texas has been busy this legislative session! They have been leading the Texas Strike Force, a group of concerned community members ready to take action, and a rapid response team tracking both helpful and harmful legislation, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the second graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2018-2019 fellows successfully completed a year-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174The year-long, nonpartisan voter engagement and mobilization strategy will be led by women and transgender people living with HIV April 1, Washington, DC: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national network of women and people [...]
March 27, 2019: In 2015, Pat Kelly, founding member of Positive Women’s Network, held a discussion with the regional chapter of South Carolina about efforts to repeal or modernize HIV criminalization laws in other states in the U.S. That conversation [...]
Online Join PWN-USA Membership Engagement Coordinator Evany Turk online for a special #NWGHAAD Facebook Live about why we should be talking about #Medicare4All instead of condoms for all! Find Our Members in [...]
January 15, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for the third year of our Policy Fellowship for Women and People of Trans Experience Living with HIV. The goal of the 9-month Fellowship is to increase [...]
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: devhur1@gmail.com 816.872.2051Octavia Lewis, Positively [...]
December 5, 2018: We are thrilled to announce that Arneta Rogers, PWN’s first ever Policy Director, is moving on to do (even more) great things! Although we will miss her, we are so excited about Arneta’s next steps. Arneta built [...]
November 21, 2018: Positive Women’s Network – USA is a national membership body of self identified women living with HIV (WLHIV), which we define as including women, people of trans experience, non-binary and gender nonconforming people living with HIV who choose [...]
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 [...]
