Check out World AIDS Day events hosted, organized, and supported by PWNers around the country! Stay updated, we will continue to update this list. December 1: PWN-CO and Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS is relaunching Compassion: Ending the Stigma Campaign [...]
By: Loren Jones As the oldest and only girl born to a welfare mom who had six children in nine years , way back in 1952, in North Philadelphia, I long ago accepted violence as a way of life. I [...]
PWN-USA Releases Groundbreaking Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for US WLHIV To read full report click here Despite significant advances in treatment and reduction in infectiousness, people living with HIV continue to face discrimination in the health care system, [...]
This summer, as part of a project to assess the state of sexual and reproductive health and rights for women living with HIV in the US, PWN-USA launched a national survey. The survey was taken by nearly 200 women living [...]
UNSPOKEN: Sexuality, Romance, and Reproductive Freedom for Women Living with HIV in the United States Findings from a National Survey by Positive Women’s Network – United States of America (PWN-USA) Summary: To better understand the current experiences of women living [...]
PWN-USA Applauds Release of White House Recommendations to Address HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities September 6, 2013, New Orleans, LA -- Today, the Interagency Federal Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women [...]
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 [...]
Hi everyone, We are getting ready for the 2013 US Conference on AIDS and look forward to seeing you all there! Here's a listing of some events and sessions featuring PWNers. Hope to catch you at some of them! Throughout [...]
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. [...]
What would it mean for young people with HIV to see themselves on magazine covers and in the media? What would it mean for young people afraid of getting tested, or figuring out how to negotiate condom use to see [...]
WORLD Contact: Cynthia Carey-Grant, Executive Director, ccarey-grant@womenhiv.org, 510.986.0340 PWN-USA Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director, naina.khanna.work@gmail.com, 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 [...]
Dear Mr. Perry, We write as people living with HIV and their allies to express our deep disappointment with your latest film, Temptation. This disappointment is made all the greater because you have done much that can be applauded. Audiences [...]
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 [...]
This full article ran on poz.com on April 19, 2013 by Naina Khanna I have been sitting with and following the reactions to Tyler Perry's Temptation over the last couple weeks. Within the HIV community, and outside of it. Within the feminist community, and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Waheedah Shabazz-El, Founding Member, iamshabazz@yahoo.com, (267) 231-2647 Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director, sbrastogi@gmail.com, (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 [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Naina Khanna, Executive Director Sonia Rastogi, Communications Director Dear Community, Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA) congratulates our inaugural Board of Directors and elected Officers. PWN-USA's Board members bring decades of diverse experience working on HIV [...]
Monday, April 1, 2013. It's not a joke. Today and tomorrow the Kansas Legislature will consider a bill that would expand the authority of state and local health officials to impose isolation or quarantine on people living with HIV and other [...]
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2013: The Real Cost of Shame Boston, MA -- Yesterday, March 10th marked National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and March 8th marked International Women's Day. We at the Positive Women's Network USA [...]
PWN-USA leaders discuss HIV-positive women's rights in the era of treatment advances and new science From the BETABlog: Access to health care, and the quality of that care, are also of critical importance to women already living with the virus. [...]
Read the U.S. Women and PrEP working group's position statement. Contact: Dazon Dixon Diallo, 404-932-7661, dddiallo@gmail.com Erika Aaron, 215-696-0640, erika.aaron@drexelmed.edu Kay Marshall, 347-249-6375, kay@avac.org Coalition of U.S. Women’s Health and HIV Advocates Call for Accelerated US Government Plan for Demonstrating [...]
Behind the Miracle Cure a Broken System Lurks A baby girl from Mississippi was recently cured of HIV. But why did the system fail this child and her mother in the first place? Jim Merrell from the HIV Prevention Justice [...]
PWN-USA stands with One Billion Rising Contact: Sonia Rastogi, PWN-USA Communications Coordinator 408.306.6805 // positivewomensnetworkusa@gmail.com February 14, 2013 - New York, NY This Valentine's Day, Positive Women's Network - United States of America (PWN-USA) shows our love for women by [...]
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 [...]
Feb. 6, 2013 Dear community, XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) Washington D.C. WE CAN END AIDS MARCH © IAS/Deborah W. Campos – Commercialimage.net Inspired by global networks of women living with HIV and supported by leaders in [...]
Dear Friends, As 2012 ends and 2013 begins, we are thankful for the incredible blessings and abundance this past year has brought. In 2012, the U.S. Positive Women’s Network was involved in important efforts, including serving as a community partner [...]
Getting to Zero for Women: Violence is the Fatal Flaw in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Sonia Rastogi, positivewomensnetworkusa@gmail.com, (408) 306-6805 November 28, 2012, Oakland, CA – Data released in 2012 shows a shocking correlation between violence, [...]
Getting to Zero for Women: Violence is the Fatal Flaw in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Sonia Rastogi, positivewomensnetworkusa@gmail.com, (408) 306-6805 November 28, 2012, Oakland, CA – Data released in 2012 shows a shocking correlation between violence, [...]
Continued Reflections on Women, HIV, and Violence: Involving Local, State, and Global Commissions by Loren Jones By Loren Jones The murder of Cicely Bolden on September 6th, 2012, both heightened and inflamed our sense of sadness and rage. It also [...]
Continued Reflections on Women, HIV, and Violence: Involving local, state, and global commissions By Loren Jones The murder of Cicely Bolden on September 6th, 2012, both heightened and inflamed our sense of sadness and rage. It also reminded us of [...]
AIDS 2012 Reflections: I am Empowered. I am Driven. I am Fierce. by Kat Griffith It is Thursday July 26th, 2012. I am traveling back home to Peoria, Illinois after over a week in Washington D.C. for the 2012 International [...]
Criminal Musings at AIDS 2012 by Dee Borrego One of the hottest topics of discussion at AIDS 2012 was that of HIV criminalization, both in the U.S. and internationally. Throughout the conference, there were multiple sessions, panels, and presentations on [...]
Criminal Musings at AIDS 2012 by Dee Borrego One of the hottest topics of discussion at AIDS 2012 was that of HIV criminalization, both in the U.S. and internationally. Throughout the conference, there were multiple sessions, panels, and presentations on [...]
Sore Arms, No Voice but a Full Heart. The “We Can End AIDS” March in Washington D.C. by Barb Cardell I came to DC totally prepared for the “We Can End AIDS” mobilization, I had my blue fabric to wave, [...]
Sore Arms, No Voice but a Full Heart. The “We Can End AIDS” March in Washington D.C. by Barb Cardell I came to DC totally prepared for the “We Can End AIDS” mobilization, I had my blue fabric to wave, [...]
LIVING 2012: Turning the Tide Together and Not Without Women! By Teresa Sullivan Two years ago I was sitting in my office watching the closing of AIDS 2010 which was in Vienna. My eyes teared up when Waheedah Shabazz-El spoke [...]
LIVING 2012: Turning the Tide Together and Not Without Women! By Teresa Sullivan Two years ago I was sitting in my office watching the closing of AIDS 2010 which was in Vienna. My eyes teared up when Waheedah Shabazz-El spoke [...]
by Susan Mull July 22, 2012 What is an AIDS-free generation? Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton clearly stated that it will be a time when no child is born with the virus, teenagers and adults will all be at lower risk, [...]
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 [...]
Advocates across the country celebrated a historic victory last week when Obama’s Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) passed a resolution on women and HIV! Among other provisions, the resolution recommends that the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy Implementation Plan be updated to [...]
HIV Volunteerism: In Our House by Barb Cardell “What do you do?” It is a common question that I dread. “I am a PROFESSIONAL volunteer,” I usually respond with a cheery smile plastered on my face. What am I supposed [...]
Can I Reach for the American Dream? by Sonia Rastogi April 17th, 2012 was Tax Day as well as Equal Pay Day (read Teresa Sullivan’s Wage Gap blog), a day established to bring attention to the pay gap for women [...]
HIV Volunteerism: In Our House by Barb Cardell “What do you do?” It is a common question that I dread. “I am a PROFESSIONAL volunteer,” I usually respond with a cheery smile plastered on my face. What am I supposed [...]
Can I Reach for the American Dream? by Sonia Rastogi April 17th, 2012 was Tax Day as well as Equal Pay Day (read Teresa Sullivan’s Wage Gap blog), a day established to bring attention to the pay gap for women [...]
PUSHING THE GLASS CEILING: Life, Liberty and Justice for HIV+ Women by Nicole Seguin “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.” - Nelson [...]
PUSHING THE GLASS CEILING: Life, Liberty and Justice for HIV+ Women by Nicole Seguin “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.” - Nelson [...]
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 [...]
By Phillis Fears, Gulfport, MS Mississippi is the state that was slow to catch on to integration and interracial relationships. Mississippi is also behind economically and in access to health care. If more women living with HIV become leaders, then [...]
by Naina Khanna I still feel sick thinking about the Blunt amendment. Not two weeks ago, a bill that would have exempted employers from having to pay for birth control failed to pass the male-dominated Senate (83 men to 17 women) [...]