Positive Women's Network - USA is turning SIX on June 17! Can you believe it? For our birthday, Elton John AIDS Foundation gave us a challenge grant of $10,000 -- meaning EJAF will double every dollar we raise up to our [...]
Inclusion. Collaboration. Conflict resolution. Restorative justice. Nuance. Challenge. Coalition. Rage. Healing. Power. There was an energy in Grinnell, Iowa, last week as more than 150 dedicated advocates gathered for HIV Is Not a Crime: The Grinnell Gathering, from June 2-5, [...]
May 15, 2014 -- Have you heard? Bigoted L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's latest target is people living with HIV, and HIV community leaders and media makers alike are not taking the bait. Sterling has recently been raked over the media [...]
May 15, 2014 -- Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a major step towards advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and choice, by releasing guidelines for the use of a daily HIV prevention pill: Truvada [...]
By Evany Turk Evany Turk. Women are a vital part of our community. Women wear lots of hats and control much of the household, and when a woman is diagnosed with HIV that doesn't stop. Unfortunately she now [...]
By Margot Kirkland-Isaac Margot Kirkland-Isaac. I was truly saddened when I received the news that the President's proposed 2015 budget sought to eliminate Ryan White Part D. It is unacceptable to me to think that, after all these [...]
On April 28 and 29, more than 300 HIV advocates descended on Washington, D.C., for AIDSWatch, the largest annual national constituent-based advocacy event focused on HIV in the U.S. -- two days of trainings and visits with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 March 26, 2014, New Orleans, LA - Just a few weeks ago, President Obama's budget for 2015 was released, proposing the elimination of Part D of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which provides [...]
The Evolution of HIV Stigma: An Interview with PWN-USA's Board Chair Barb Cardell, from the Atlas NewsletterReposted from the Atlas Newsletter's website"HIV stigma has been prevalent since the virus’ outbreak in the 1980s. While decades of medical advances have changed [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA is conducting a community-based research project to better understand the romantic and sexual lives of US women living with HIV, and how HIV-positive women, including transgender women, perceive ourselves with regard to sex and relationships. [...]
Dear community - As you may know, in early 2013 the Positive Women's Network - USA transitioned to become an independent and autonomous organization, governed entirely by women living with HIV and accountable to our national constituency of HIV-positive women. [...]
WORLD Contact: Cynthia Carey-Grant, Executive Director, [email protected], 510.986.0340 PWN-USA Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director, [email protected], 510.681.1169 Women’s HIV Advocacy Organizations Continue Building Leadership Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) and the Positive Women’s Network-United States of America [...]
This Mother’s Day, the Positive Women’s Network – USA reclaims and redefines motherhood from our perspective. As a network for all women living with HIV, including transgender women, we are: Women who have been discouraged, shamed, and forbidden from having [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Waheedah Shabazz-El, Founding Member, [email protected], (267) 231-2647 Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director, [email protected], (408) 306-6805 Tyler Perry's Temptation Sentences People with HIV to a Lifetime of Stigma and Isolation April 16, 2013, New York, NY – “Tyler [...]
By Susan Mull Don’t you wish pop culture would critique the latest Supreme Court antics surrounding the Voting Rights Act? After all, aren’t we all more than a little appalled by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia saying that a critical [...]
Updated: Positive Women's Network - United States of America Congratulates the PACHA for passing Criminalization Resolution In observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA) urges the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) to pass resolution condemning HIV [...]
by Teresa Sullivan, Philadelphia, PA “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of [...]
Mujeres Unidas: Representing Latinas Living with HIV at AIDS 2012 by Martha Zarate My name is Martha Zarate. After 12 consecutive years of trying to have a baby, God gave me the miracle of motherhood in 2000. But through the [...]
by Sonia Rastogi In mid-May of 2011, “a brutal rape and sexual assault was not enough. Now the New York Post has turned its vicious sights on the woman who brought assault charges against International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn. [...]
It’s About Love: World AIDS Day 2010 by Naina Khanna This World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2010, I want to talk about love. Yes, love. We talk about sex frequently in the HIV world… but not so much about love. [...]
by Waheedah Shabazz-El The women’s Liberation movement of the 1960’s was undoubtedly a major contributor toward the achievement of women’s empowerment. As we feel our strength and recognize our worth as women we seize and create opportunities for ourselves and [...]