Prevention Justice

Prevention Justice is a call to institutionalizing an effective HIV prevention approach that recognizes the structural factors that affect people’s lives and put them at risk for HIV in the first place. For women in particular, prevention justice has unique nuances. Telling women to abstain or asking women to use a condom is not enough to protect women from HIV. Women will be safe from HIV when the overall quality of our lives and the lives of our loved ones is uplifted and when we have a variety of ways to protect ourselves, including methods that don’t require our partner’s knowledge or consent. PWN-USA Tools and Resources:

• Understanding the Promise: Considering the Experiences of Women Living with HIV to Maximize Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Technologies, Women’s Health Issues, March 2014

  “Women are more than partners and mothers of children.  Women’s needs are not well-served by plans in which they are present only by implication.” PWN-USA leaders and allies know that women living with HIV are a rich source of first-hand information regarding women’s HIV prevention and care needs — and that this resource is largely untapped.  Now, evidence to support this knowledge has been published in the latest edition of Women’s Health Issues in an article researched and written almost entirely by women living with HIV! This publication is a major step forward in amplifying the voices of women living with HIV not only in advocacy, but in research as well.  Read the abstract of the paper here and read the full manuscript here…
• PWN-USA Prevention Justice Factsheet (PDF version)
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• PWN-USA is a proud member of the U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group, read our March 2013 statement
• Coalition of U.S. Women’s Health and HIV Advocates Call for Accelerated U.S. Government Plan for Demonstrating Feasibility of PrEP for Women VOICE Results Underscore Need for Clear, U.S.-based PrEP Implementation Agenda, March 5, 2013
• Featured Report: Bringing Gender Justice to HIV Prevention: A blueprint for women’s action, July 2012
• New HIV Prevention Technologies: What’s In It for Women?, Anna Forbes and Naina Khanna, 2012
• PWN-USA Official Comments on PrEP to the Food and Drug Administration, April 30, 2012

Other Resources:

• Female Condom Campaigns: Chicago, Atlanta, DC
• Baral, SD et al., Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: a systematic review and meta-analysis, The Lancet Infectious Disease, 2013;13: 214–22
• Hodder, S et al., Challenges of a Hidden Epidemic: HIV Prevention Among Women in the United States, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, December 2010