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. [...]
By Brook Kelly Deon Haywood, Executive Director of Women with a Vision (WWAV) in New Orleans, LA, hosted PWN’s Human Rights Training in June 2011. PWN’s Brook Kelly interviewed Deon after the training. What is Women with a Vision’s (WWAV) [...]
Spotlight on the South: “I am not the enemy, I am the answer” – an interview with Bonetta Graves and Juanita Williams By Sonia Rastogi and Naina Khanna The epidemic in the Southern United States is “skyrocketing. Every week we [...]
By Sonia Rastogi A ray of hope in the war on women came on August 1, 2011, when the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) officially adopted the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) guidelines recommending that HIV testing and contraception options [...]
By Naina Khanna – Community Organizing is a long-term approach to achieving social change through collective action by changing the balance of power. In the process, the people most affected by an issue are supported to identify a problem and [...]
Women Commend President Obama’s Leadership on National HIV/AIDS Strategy; Urge Increased Focus on Women; Southern U.S. and “Shadow Cities” in Implementation Wednesday July 13, Oakland CA – One year after the release of the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy, HIV-positive women [...]
By Sonia Rastogi – The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), is a safety net that provides life-saving medications to people living with HIV. Due to a funding crisis, as of September 2010, 3,441 people are on waiting lists to access [...]
By Teresa Sullivan When I went to jail in 2005, one of the biggest problems that I had was at the medication window. One day when going to get my HIV medications at the window, I looked at the pills [...]
Why Not Me? How I became an advocate for women on HIV and reproductive issues -by Michelle Anderson My name is Michelle Anderson and I live in Dallas, TX. Here is my story on how I transformed into an advocate [...]
By Sonia Rastogi – The U.S. will host the 20th International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Washington, DC in July 2012. The conference stayed out of the U.S for years, largely because of a community boycott due to the U.S. travel [...]
By Kat Griffith I have been privileged to be able to represent the Positive Women’s Network-USA on a national committee charged with creating a training curriculum to teach practitioners in the field about the intersection between Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) [...]
Reflecting on 30 years since the first case of HIV - by Acintia Wright In the last 30 years HIV has become a great milestone for myself and my family I became positive about 16 years ago on September 16, [...]
By Positive Women’s Network-USA – June 5th, 2011 will mark 30 years since the first case of what now is called HIV was recorded in U.S. history. Since then, people living with HIV, advocates, allies, friends, and families have spoken [...]
By Sonia Rastogi – cross-posted from The Well Project – April 2011′s ACT HIV American Conference for the Treatment of HIV, was a mind-expanding experience. Experts in medicine and research came together for 2 and one half days to discuss the treatment and [...]
By Barb Cardell – cross posted from The Well Project I recently attended the ACTHIV conference in Denver, thanks to a scholarship from The Well Project. ACTHIV is a nationwide conference for HIV treatment attended by providers, nurses, case managers, social [...]
By Kat Griffith Cross-posted from IL ASAP’s Anti-Stigma T-shirt Campaign Stigma is a three-dollar word that affects millions of Americans in different ways. Defining stigma as simply “a mark of shame or discredit” doesn’t sound very impactful, and yet communities around [...]
Excerpts from Women and HIV: A Nuanced Epidemic by Naina Khanna — The HIV epidemic among women in the U.S. largely affects women of color, low income women, and women with dependents. Over 80% of women living with HIV in the U.S. [...]
By Naina Khanna – There appears to be a disturbing trend taking place in cities and counties all over the country… the quiet de-funding of women-centered HIV services. This means HIV+ women have fewer places to go for peer support, support [...]
By Dee Borrego On World AIDS Day, the world remembers those of us living with HIV/AIDS, unlike the 364 other days of the year when our community becomes another sad statistic on the evening news about “other places.” As Americans, [...]
By Reverend Damon A. Powell, Ph.D. Recruitment and partnership with Black-American churches and sororities can serve as an aide in increasing HIV testing and awareness within Black-American communities. Although Black-American churches and sororities would appear to be strikingly different institutions [...]
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 [...]