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, [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 [...]
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, [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 [...]
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, [email protected] Erika Aaron, 215-696-0640, [email protected] Kay Marshall, 347-249-6375, [email protected] 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 // [email protected] 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, [email protected], (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, [email protected], (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) [...]
Count Me In Poetry By Stacy Jennings From March 6-8, PWN hosted an Advocacy Summit for 50 women from the Southern U.S. Stacy Jennings, a participant from South Carolina spoke up and spoke out! Count Me In Count me in [...]
Sexual Rights of HIV+ Transwomen by Dee Borrego I’m puzzled by the question of what the sexual rights of HIV+ transgender women are. To me, as an openly HIV+ transwoman, the answer is as clear as glass. Simply put, [...]
What’s the Link between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV? by Kat Griffith I am extremely honored to be asked to sit on a national committee that created a curriculum for teaching providers about the intersection between Intimate Partner Violence and [...]
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 [...]
Transphobia on Philadelphia’s public buses and trains: A Colourful Conversation with Andrea Lamour-Harrington By Andrea Lamour-Harrington I live in the fair city of Philadelphia, PA – “the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection.” Now let me elaborate on just [...]
By Acintia Wright In the U.S., it was recently reported that about 50% of women living with HIV are not receiving medical care. In San Diego County, the statistic is higher — 69% of women living with HIV are not [...]
By Gina Brown My name is Gina Brown and I am a woman living with HIV. I was diagnosed 17 years ago while pregnant with my daughter. I can still remember hearing the words, “you have AIDS and you’re [...]
By Barb Cardell, PWN-USA Member in Colorado “Given… trends and issues, efforts to stem the tide of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic will increasingly depend on how and to what extent its effect on women and girls is addressed” – [...]
by Maria Cruz, PWN-USA Philadelphia I am a HIV positive recovering addict, and live a wonderful life. However, the wonderful life I live now wasn’t always so bright. It was during my incarceration that I first learned that I was [...]