September 3, 2021: This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is now stacked with six reactionary justices after the Trump administration installed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, effectively gutted Roe v. Wade when a five-to-four majority--including all [...]
August 20, 2021 — Today, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) commemorates the annual Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD). Launched by the Southern AIDS Coalition in 2019, SHAAD is a day set aside for individuals all over the nation to [...]
August 18, 2021Dear PWN family,We understand and recognize how covid-19 continues to impact and disrupt our lives and our communities. As new information and guidance is released on covid-19 and vaccines, PWN will be here to break it down for [...]
July 29, 2021: Missouri recently modernized the state's HIV exposure laws--an effort that took over 10 years on the part of local advocates, legislators and other stakeholders. PWN Board Co-Chair LaTrischa Miles began her organizing efforts to reform Missouri's HIV [...]
Join PWN’s regional chapters and state leads to meet the women and trans folks living with HIV leading the way in their communitiesJuly 23, 2021: Everyone in the HIV community knows that the women and trans folks of Positive Women’s [...]
July 14, 2021: For some of us, the last time we were together in person was at PWN’s 2019 Organizing for Power Bootcamp. We gathered together to learn about electoral organizing, to perfect our voter engagement and grassroots organizing skills, [...]
40 years into the HIV epidemic, networks of people living with HIV demand a response that uplifts dignity, human rights, and wellness The policy agenda, written collaboratively by member networks of the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus, details concrete recommendations [...]
June 30, 2021: What do you do when you know the laws target a specific group of people? How do you amplify the concerns of the people who are impacted by those laws? What if you are a part of [...]
June 23, 2021: PWN is deeply saddened by the passing of our brilliant, well-respected, and loved founding member Loren Jones earlier this month. Loren was a long-standing member of PWN’s board of directors, a pioneer in HIV advocacy, a prison [...]
June 18, 2021: In 1619, the first 350 kidnapped Africans were shackled and shipped to what is today known as the United States of America. Black people had been free. Now they were enslaved by a vicious system built on [...]
June 16, 2021: People living with HIV and other conditions who know first-hand what it feels like to be denied insurance coverage due to preexisting conditions, as well as the millions of people who gained coverage through Medicaid expansion, can [...]
Many HIV activists have expressed concern about molecular HIV surveillance (MHS), a practice that utilizes and shares data from people living with HIV without our consent. In June 2020, the AIDS United Public Policy Committee adopted this position statement calling [...]
June 8, 2021Global activists from Positive Women's Network - USA, Sero Project, MPact, U.S. People living with HIV Caucus, HIV Racial Justice Now!, Desiree Alliance, International Community of Women Living with Women-North America, Global Network of People living with HIV/North [...]
June 2, 2021Are you a person living with HIV who wants to improve the quality of life for other people living with HIV? Do you want to get involved with like-minded advocates and networks of people living with HIV? Do [...]
People living with HIV know that one step in leading a healthy life is having access to life-saving medication. What do you do when access to those medications is taken away from the people who most need them? If you [...]
April 22, 2021: We mourn, we rage, we rest, we soldier on.This week, a jury returned a guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was executed in broad daylight by police. Former cop Derek [...]
April 2, 2021: With Governor Ralph Northam's signature on the dotted line as of March 31, it's official: Virginia's HIV criminalization laws have been modernized and dramatically rolled back. The culmination of over two years of organizing and advocacy led by [...]
March 31, 2021Dear PWN community,Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and building a world where it’s safe for transgender and gender non-conforming people to live their truth has never been more important. None of us are free until [...]
In March 2021, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held a hearing requesting stakeholders provide public comment answering two questions:What are the most meaningful actions that can be taken to implement the HIV National Strategy Plan and improve implementation [...]
It's Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day! March 12, 2021 The day we've been counting down to since last fall is finally here: PWN's first annual Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day. [...]
March 8, 2021Greetings, PWN members and community,We are writing to you today with big news. Nearly thirteen years into the existence of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), we have transitioned to a co-directorship model. Venita Ray and Naina Khanna [...]
PWN is thrilled to host the first-ever Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day this March 12, 2021! There is still time to sign on to the pledge to commit to celebrating and honoring Black women in [...]
February 26, 2021: The disaster that has unfolded across the South and particularly in Texas over the past couple of weeks is anything but natural. It’s a catastrophe of manmade proportions—the perfect storm of climate crisis, structural racism, unchecked capitalism, [...]
Like you, we have been horrified by the devastation wrought by the winter storm in Texas and the Gulf region, and the failure of Texas political leadership to respond. We are not confused about the root causes here - climate [...]
Deadline Extension: Sunday, 2/21! Apply for the PWN Policy Fellowship Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is still accepting applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans [...]
February 8, 2021: Folks, we have a new president--and with that, we have a whole lot of new executive orders. If you got a little lost in the flurry of papers coming out of the White House, you are not [...]
The new Southern Women Advocacy Response Mobilization (SWARM) will be an ongoing space for HIV advocates in the South to discuss emerging issues, hear from expert speakers, and get training to maximize their advocacy February 12, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – [...]
PWN is proud of the role our leaders have played in this important step in ending injustice and stigma for people living with HIV in Virginia PWN VA State Lead Deirdre Johnson testifies before the VA Senate Judiciary Committee February [...]
February 5, 2021: As another National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day rolls around this Sunday, February 7, our inboxes will be inundated with well-meaning emails from HIV organizations and agencies highlighting, again, the racial disparities in HIV acquisition and health outcomes. [...]
January 29, 2021: When you could have been doing anything else after a very, stressful election, you chose to take up the mantle and continue to educate, engage, and mobilize voters in Georgia. Alongside our partners from Women Engaged in [...]
January 22, 2021: Are you a Black woman or person of trans experience living with HIV or involved in the HIV community? Get your creative juices flowing and enter an original piece of artwork for PWN’s inaugural Celebrate & Honor [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA sent the following letter to the Biden-Harris administration.Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) is the only national organization truly led by and for women living with HIV (WLHIV), inclusive of women of transgender experience. Our mission is [...]
January 20, 2021: Today, we have a new president and vice president. While the enormous challenges their administration faces will not be resolved overnight, President Biden can begin to undo some of the grievous damage done to our nation and [...]
January 15, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is thrilled to launch applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
January 8, 2021: Wednesday’s white supremacist failed coup in the U.S. Capitol was horrifying, scary, unprecedented – yet not unpredictable.The attack was not on a building. This was an attack on our people. The message of these insurrectionists, including those [...]
December 17, 2020: On December 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services released the draft HIV National Strategic Plan 2021-2025. Comments were due Monday, December 14. In collaboration with many of our partners, including the networks of people [...]
December 1, 2020: This World AIDS Day, we honor Black women in the HIV movement.Black women have been at the forefront of the HIV response since the earliest days of the domestic epidemic. Black women have marched, led, care-taken, stood [...]
Art by Glori Tuitt + @fwdtogether We Read Their NamesWe read the names of precious lives lostTo open our eyes to the enormous costOf bigotry, religion, ignorance, and hate,And honor those who too soon met their fate.Sisters [...]
November 9, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on their election by a decisive majority of total votes cast and electoral college votes in the highest turnout election in U.S. [...]
November 6, 2020: We've got a lot of feelings right now.Our spirits are bruised, our anxiety high. We bear the scars of generations of trauma, the legacy of white supremacy and patriarchy. They drive us to continue to fight for [...]
November 4, 2020Hey PWN family, You came through! In a year of a new pandemic; of a brutal backlash to uprisings for racial justice; and in the face of so many threats to our bodily autonomy, our families, and our [...]
November 2, 2020: Tomorrow night, the polls will close for the most significant election of our lives. Many of us have dedicated countless hours to making sure that every eligible voter in our community gets to have their voice heard. [...]
October 29, 2020: Maybe you're like the 66 million Americans who have already voted. If so... Haven't voted yet? Perhaps you've still got that mail or absentee ballot sitting on that corner of the kitchen table where your mail hangs [...]
October 22, 2020Dear Community, 2020 has been a tough year. A new pandemic. Police brutality. Fires and hurricanes. A racial justice uprising and a corresponding violent response by the state and white supremacist groups. So much loss and grief. And [...]
October 22, 2020: As many of you know, PWN has hosted a Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV on October 23 since 2014. Because our staff and members are all working hard on the November [...]
October 1, 2020: Black women deserve the world. At Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN), this is central to everything we do, from the policies we advocate for to the way we do our work. And we think it’s high [...]
September 30, 2020: With so much going on in our country today, it can be easy to forget that the most crucial election of our lifetime is only a little over a month away. Civil uprisings are continuing to happen [...]
PWN Condemns the Trump Administration's Latest Attacks on Reproductive Justice Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s newly reported campaign of terror against immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). September 18, 2020: On [...]
August 31, 2020: Shannon Robinson is one busy woman. She has been organizing around the elections in Colorado with PWN since the 2018 midterms--work she's continuing for the 2020 elections. But her organizing kicked into high gear at the end of [...]
July 27, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things in our day-to-day lives. The response to the pandemic by many elected officials in America, from state houses to the White House, has been dismal. But elections are [...]
