April 30, 2020: How are you centering the voices of women of trans experience of color living with HIV? How does your organization support the leadership of folks of trans experience? What is currently underway to ensure that women of [...]
April 28, 2020: ICW, GNP+ and PWN-USA mourn the loss of all of our former Board member and community champion Deloris Dockrey, who passed due to complications with COVID-19. For anyone that knew Deloris she was a ray of light [...]
April 17, 2020: Even in the best of times, cisgender and transgender women living with HIV are disproportionately vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV): 55% report having experienced IPV in their lives, twice the rate of women more generally. In [...]
On Monday, April 13, 2020, PWN's policy team and guest panelist Jessica Pinckney from In Our Own Voice answered questions submitted by PWN members and allies about everything related to COVID-19--the disease caused by the novel coronavirus--and the [...]
April 10, 2020 The Honorable Jerrold NadlerChairmanHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515The Honorable Lindsey GrahamChairmanSenate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. SenateWashington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Jim JordanRanking MemberHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House [...]
April 1, 2020: It’s party time, people! We get to see and participate in a rare and wonderful event. Something that only happens once every ten years. Something that could help ensure your community has its fair share of political [...]
March 23, 2020: It is almost impossible to have a conversation these days without COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, creeping in. Before so many people around the world really understood the seriousness of the new disease, JD [...]
March 23, 2020 Dear PWN Family, Ten years ago today, something monumental happened. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, it meant--for the first time in this nation's history--that insurance companies could [...]
March 13, 2020Dear PWN Family,Recent weeks have been full of news—some of it confusing and contradictory—about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization this past Wednesday.We have heard that PWN members are [...]
March 10, 2020 -- In observance of today’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), ACT NOW: END AIDS (ANEA), calls on every 2020 Presidential candidate to actively include input from women and girls living with and vulnerable to [...]
February 28, 2020: A year after President Trump gave his State of the Union Address where he announced the initiative Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EtE), Black AIDS Institute (BAI) published its response to the call from [...]
The Blacker the Plan: Black AIDS Institute’s groundbreaking new report challenges HIV advocates to address anti-Blackness, invest in Black communities, end disparities in health care access, and build capacity in the Black community to respond to the epidemic. Feb. 7, 2020: [...]
The training academy, scheduled for May 30 – June 2 in Columbus, OH, will inspire and build the advocacy skills of hundreds of HIV advocates“As a survivor of HIV criminalization, seeing so many people from all across the world wanting [...]
The new Medicaid “block grant” option will lower quality of and access to care for the most vulnerableJanuary 30, 2020: Whether it’s routine like strep throat or scary like cancer, illness reminds us that at our core, we’re all human. [...]
January 29, 2020: Imagine being a woman living with HIV, truly apprehensive or extremely cautious when it comes to sexual intimacy. After all, you've been hearing for years that you have to use condoms every single time. Imagine the spark [...]
January 16, 2020: “I didn’t know too much about PWN, but I wanted to empower Latin women. Now I know so much!” This was the reaction of just one of the twelve women living with HIV who attended [...]
January 13, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to launch applications for the fourth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
December 17, 2019: All work has dignity, and every human being has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) unequivocally supports sex workers and their right to bodily autonomy. Our advocacy is grounded in human rights and social justice, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the third graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2019-2020 Fellows successfully completed a 9-month-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: [email protected] The program, a continuation and expansion of the popular #PWNCares series, will provide opportunities for service and care providers to connect women diagnosed with HIV with a supportive network. December 16, 2019: Positive Women’s Network [...]
Violence and oppression have devastating consequences for our bodies, hearts, minds, relationships and our movement. Transforming this requires a commitment from each of us. December 1, 2019: Every World AIDS Day, HIV re-emerges in the headlines, as we pay homage [...]
November 22, 2019: Women Engaged is a pioneer in the reproductive justice movement as one of the very few organizations in Atlanta, Georgia to use an integrated voter engagement model to not only increase civic engagement but to build power [...]
November 20, 2019: For 20 years, November 20 has been observed as Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day for for various communities to come together to honor the lives of transgender people that were lost to violence. PWN-USA envisions [...]
November 7, 2019: On Tuesday, a number of U.S. states held elections that may have transformed their political landscape in advance of 2020. Want to know what happened without spending the day searching the news? Positive Women’s Network - USA [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: [email protected] Positive Women’s Network Action Fund Launches 12-month Get Out The HIV Vote Plan Following a five-day intensive training on electoral organizing, leaders from 10 states leave fired up and ready to mobilize the HIV [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org Positive Women’s Network – USA Kicks Off Organizing for Power: Road to 2020 Electoral Organizing Effort with a Five-Day Intensive Bootcamp Eleven teams from ten states, all led by women and people of trans experience [...]
October 24, 2019: This is really happening! PWN-USA is going on the road to Atlanta, Georgia, for our in-person electoral organizing bootcamp starting this Sunday, October 27! Teams from 11 key geographic locations who are part of PWN’s cutting-edge new [...]
TODAY, October 23, 2019, is Positive Women's Network - USA's sixth annual Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. Sign On to Endorse the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV More [...]
October 10, 2019: A month after the 2019 U.S. Conference on AIDS, we asked some of our member spokespeople what was still on their mind from the conference.One recurring theme was the protest on stage during the plenary with CDC [...]
September 30, 2019: HIV has long been misunderstood by the legal system. There are currently laws in 33 states criminalizing people living with HIV for exposure to HIV, nondisclosure of HIV and/or transmission. PWNers in Florida understand how these draconian [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA LAUNCHES 2020 HIV VOTER ENGAGEMENT PLAN The intensive, multi-state voter engagement plan will leverage the power of people living with and affected by HIV to activate communities historically ignored by [...]
August 29, 2019: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in Washington, D.C. representing women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these conversations and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or at home, you [...]
PWN member Lisa Britt is interviewed by local news media at the Aug. 1 community meeting August 29, 2019: The federal housing program, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), was created in recognition that health outcomes for people [...]
August 12, 2019: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) unequivocally condemns the latest development in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against immigrant communities. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule seeking to further intimidate and punish some [...]
July 30, 2019: Today, we are honoring a true shero.Waheedah Shabazz-El, founding member of Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) and our first-ever organizing director, is retiring from her role with PWN to move on to the next phase in her [...]
July 30, 2019: PWN members in Alabama--or PWN Alabama Voices, as they call their group--have been busy supporting the mobilization efforts of organizations such as Alabama Arise around attacks on SNAP benefits.They are advocating against the bill recently signed into law in [...]
Para leer en español haz clic aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennifer Johnson-Avril, Housing Works 646-732-1573 [email protected] Khanna, Positive Women’s Network-USA 510-681-1169 [email protected] Strub, Sero Project 646-642-4915 [email protected] 26, 2019: During a Congressional hearing on Thursday July 25, 2019, Chief Brian Hastings [...]
June 26, 2019: No matter what we are doing either individually as advocates or whether we are a member of a team or coalition, we all need support. We all need to feel included and valued even when we disagree [...]
Calling advocates and organizers for a Summer Saturdays brunch-time web-based training series sponsored by Positive Women’s Network - USA. BYOB! Register here! Organizing is a long term approach to developing power as a community. It looks beyond policy campaigns, election cycles, [...]
May 30, 2019: The staff, Board of Directors, and membership body at Positive Women's Network - USA want to express our heartfelt condolences for the sudden, unexpected loss of one of our most celebrated sisters, Mary Bowman, at only 30 [...]
May 31, 2019: We all know that young people deserve comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sexual education in school so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual health and reproductive options. Seeing that the existing 2013 law requiring comprehensive sex ed [...]
May 24, 2019: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule reinterpreting the scope of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Section 1557 is the non-discrimination section of the ACA. It bars health [...]
State Violence Won’t End Interpersonal Violence. What Will?by Kelly Flannery, PWN If/When/How Reproductive Justice HIV Legal FellowMay 23, 2019: Over 60% of women living with HIV in the U.S. have experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. [...]
May 16, 2019: Dear PWN community,We’re furious and ready to fight. Are you with us? Yesterday, the governor of Alabama signed into law the most restrictive abortion ban in U.S. history, making abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy. [...]
April 24, 2019: PWN Texas has been busy this legislative session! They have been leading the Texas Strike Force, a group of concerned community members ready to take action, and a rapid response team tracking both helpful and harmful legislation, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the second graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2018-2019 fellows successfully completed a year-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
April 12, 2019: Today, the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military went into effect. The ban is reminiscent of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which was repealed in 2011, in that it allows transgender troops to [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174 In “Be Your Own Best Advocate,” women living with HIV share their experiences navigating frustrating doctors’ visits, offer tips and encouragementApril 2, 2019: Engagement and retention in care are critical following an HIV diagnosis. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347.553.5174The year-long, nonpartisan voter engagement and mobilization strategy will be led by women and transgender people living with HIV April 1, Washington, DC: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national network of women and people [...]
March 27, 2019: In 2015, Pat Kelly, founding member of Positive Women’s Network, held a discussion with the regional chapter of South Carolina about efforts to repeal or modernize HIV criminalization laws in other states in the U.S. That conversation [...]
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