As convening partner for the Health Not Prisons Collective (HNP), PWN is proud to work alongside the Sero Project, the Counter Narrative Project, Transgender Law Center, and the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus in fighting for the abolition of laws that harm our communities. HNP is committed to Black liberation, queer and trans liberation, and the liberation of all communities most impacted by HIV. We are dedicated to advancing the leadership, health, safety, and dignity of people living with HIV, BIPOC communities, queer and trans people, sex workers, substance users, immigrant and migrant populations, imprisoned and detained people, people with disabilities, and no- and low-income people.
We demand an HIV decriminalization movement that centers, elevates, and honors leadership from the communities that are the most surveilled, policed and criminalized.
On this HINAC Day, we ask that our movement partners commit to centering the expertise of people living with HIV, to uplifting the leadership of people who have experienced HIV criminalization, and to constantly re-grounding your collective anti-criminalization advocacy in active commitments to racial and gender justice.
There is a long path toward freedom and we are ready to throw down in the best way we know how: together!
