This statement is also available in Spanish. A call to marshal our full resources, voice and political power in support of immigrants targeted by hateful policies and dangerous, dehumanizing rhetoric. Borders are imaginary political lines drawn to consolidate power and resources. [...]
In 2017, as part of our mission to prepare and involve women living with HIV in all levels of advocacy and decision making tables that impact their lives, we launched a yearlong federal policy training fellowship program for people who [...]
Click to watch Mark S. King's amazing video of the Summit! Have you heard? Positive Women’s Network-USA just celebrated our 10 year anniversary! True to form, we honored ten years of fierce leadership by and for women living with [...]
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 12** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 SPEAK UP! 2018, THE ONLY NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT BY AND FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV, KICKS OFF IN ONE WEEK Nearly 350 women living with HIV and allies will convene in Myrtle [...]
March 10, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, PWN-USA members were busy educating, informing and promoting awareness about HIV in their communities throughout the U.S. Members organized and presented at in-person events, participated in Twitter chats, webinars, interviews, wrote [...]
March 14, 2018 -- When it comes to the widely misunderstood, complex issue of HIV criminalization, media can be a powerful tool--or a blunt-force weapon. And so today, as people around the world living with HIV continue to be criminalized [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 13, 2018 Contact:Cecilia Chung, San Francisco, CA 415.902.0216 | cecilia.chung@me.comLarry Walker, Atlanta GA 443.703.6082 | larry@thrives.comNaina Khanna, Oakland, CA 510.681.1169 | nkhanna@pwn-usa.orgAndrew Spieldenner, San Diego, CA 323.620.3432 | aspieldenner@gmail.comOver 50 organizations stand in strong opposition to holding the [...]
March 9, 2018: National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day marks an annual moment to pause, reflect and make new commitments to advance human rights, dignity and justice for all women and girls living with and vulnerable to HIV. Today’s [...]
The third installment in the #PWNCares interactive multimedia series will be released March 8 in time for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and will be accompanied by a live virtual coffee table chat with the four women featured [...]
photo credit: Johnnie Kornegay Leer en español aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Leaders of Color in the HIV Movement Form A Strategic Working Group To Advance the Movement Towards Racial JusticeCONTACT: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169, nkhanna@pwn-usa.org orCharles Stephens, (404) 550-4697, charles.stephens@counternarrative.orgFebruary 21, 2018: In July 2017, [...]
by Arneta Rogers, Policy Director, Positive Women’s Network - USAFebruary 7, 2018: Today marks the second National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day we have observed under the most openly racist administration in decades. The legacy of slavery, violence against and systemic [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Ken Pinkela, ken.pinkela@seroproject.com or Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org February 5, 2018: SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network - USA are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 HIV is Not a Crime III National [...]
You spoke; we listened!As part of our effort to keep participation in SPEAK UP! 2018 as affordable as possible for as many women and people of trans experience as possible, we are extending our early-bird registration discount through Friday, Feb. 9!If you are a woman [...]
January 30, 2018:“The Summit was so powerful! The organizers of the summit worked to make it a space welcoming for those of differing levels of comfort with their HIV status, familiarity with advocacy and participation in a large group setting.”“The PWN Summit lived [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**COALITION TO MODERNIZE SOUTH CAROLINA’S HIV LAWS TO CONVENE FEB. 1The new coalition will work toward the goal of making South Carolina the first Southern state to change its discriminatory HIV criminalization lawsThe South Carolina chapter of Positive [...]
If you are a woman or person of trans experience living with HIV, you don't want to miss SPEAK UP! 2018, the ONLY national leadership summit by and for women living with HIV. And you only have a week left to take [...]
POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA CONDEMNS THE CREATION OF NEW HHS DIVISION WHICH WILL LEGALIZE DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGSYesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is creating a new division—“Conscience and Religious Freedom”—within its [...]
January 12, 2018: Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for the second year of our Policy Fellowship for women and folks of trans experience living with HIV (WLHIV).The goal of the yearlong Fellowship is to increase [...]
Updated January 8, 2018: The HIV Is Not a Crime Training Academy unites and trains advocates living with HIV and allies from across the country on laws criminalizing people living with and vulnerable to HIV and on strategies and best practices [...]
December 15, 2017: PWN-USA is excited to announce the launch of two new resources for 2018 as part of our continued efforts to reform HIV criminalization laws nationwide and to support people living with HIV targeted by those laws.The first resource [...]
Thirty-five years ago, the United States was just beginning to understand that the mysterious illness killing hundreds of mostly gay men, but also some hemophiliacs, women and infants. Before the end of the decade, the death rate would spike to [...]
TDOR artwork courtesy of Forward Together. Visit their page for more artwork and writing by trans artists!Today, November 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR as it is commonly called. The transgender community, especially transgender women of [...]
The Framework to Build a Racially Just and Strategic HIV Movement Addresses Root Causes of the Epidemic and Lights a New Way Forward **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contacts: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169; nkhanna@pwn-usa.org Charles Stephens, (404) 550-4697; charles.stephens@counternarrative.org November 9, 2017: What could radical leadership look like [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Ken Pinkela, ken.pinkela@seroproject.com or Jennie Smith-Camejo jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org November 1, 2017: Sero Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are thrilled to announce the opening of scholarship applications for HIV Is Not A Crime III National Training Academy, being [...]
October 23, 2017 Did you know? Women living with HIV are twice as likely to experience intimate partner violence (IPV) and five times as likely to experience lifetime sexual assault as the general population of women. Data also shows that women of trans experience, [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 The new initiative, featuring a series of short videos in which real women living with HIV address important topics, followed by virtual coffee table chats offering real-time conversation and Q&A, will launch Oct. 23 October [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** October 6, 2017 CONTACT: Naina Khanna, naina.khanna.work@gmail.com, 510.681.1169 or Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 Sacramento, Calif.— Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law landmark legislation to reform outdated laws that unfairly criminalized and stigmatized people living with HIV. Senate [...]
September 28, 2017: In Washington, D.C., and in states across the country, PWN-USA members stood up and fought hard to protect the promise of the Affordable Care Act from the latest attack, the Graham-Cassidy bill. It was the worst of a [...]
September 26: It’s been a long, hard few months. You deserve kudos–and a break. We thought we had killed the ACA repeal bill in the House in March, only to have it resurface in April and pass the House in [...]
Thursday, Sept. 21 ISSUE: It’s now or never. Senate Republicans have just over a week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the devastating Graham-Cassidy proposal is gaining steam, even though it will do exactly what previous repeal bills would [...]
Updated Sept. 10 September 8, United States Conference on AIDS, 2017. Washington, D.C.: Black men wait 32% longer to cross the street than white men, according to a study from Portland, Oregon. Males in their 20s, identically dressed, had very distinct [...]
**For Immediate Release** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 September 8, 2017: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is proud to announce that we will be celebrating our first decade of sisterhood, solidarity and action by hosting our third National Leadership [...]
September 5, 2017: This country was built and continues to be sustained by immigrant love and labor. But today, the current administration ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, placing nearly 900,000 young immigrants, their families and loved [...]
August 31, 2017: Heading to the US Conference on AIDS 2017 next week? PWN members and allies will be in full effect! Our dynamic and fierce members will be sitting on panels and leading discussions in workshops and plenaries. Check out [...]
August 8: We did it! Through people power, we killed the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act! At least for now, and just by one vote. We have lots of work ahead of us. All members of Congress are home for the August [...]
July 28: Let it sink in. Savor it. If victory is sweet, this is a whole chocolate cake with ice cream, whipped cream and cherries on top. The efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act have died. And it’s all because [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tiommi Luckett, Communications Assistant, Positive Women’s Network - USA 501-258-3973 | tluckett.pwnusa@gmail.com July 26, 2017, Washington, DC- Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN-USA) condemns the Trump administration’s vicious dehumanization of people who are trans and gender non [...]
We haven’t won yet. Today, more than 500 constituents will OCCUPY THE OFFICES OF ALL GOP SENATORS WHO DO NOT SPEAK UP AGAINST ACA REPEAL Wherever you are, help keep up the pressure to #KillRepeal! Thanks to your unwavering efforts, [...]
Contact: Jennifer Flynn, Center for Popular Democracy, 917 517-5202 • jflynn@populardemocracy.org Paul Davis, Housing Works, 202 817 0129 • p.davis@housingworks.org **MEDIA ADVISORY FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 19** 500+ CONSTITUENTS OF ALL 52 REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO OCCUPY CAPITOL HILL OFFICES TO TELL [...]
July 12, 2017: This Monday, July 10, four PWN-USA members as well as a number of allies joined over 100 other constituents from 21 states in descending on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with a very clear, explicit message for their [...]
Patients with pre-existing conditions and health providers from at least 21 states to occupy numerous Republican offices in acts of civil disobedience to unwelcome elected officials on their first day back from recess July 10, 2017: WASHINGTON D.C. – Constituents afraid [...]
Masonia Traylor at the People’s Filibuster in Washington, DC, June 27 Members of Positive Women’s Network-USA have dedicated enormous time and energy to stop the GOP repeal of the Affordable Care Act, first through the House Republicans’ “American [...]
URGENT: The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next week to decimate healthcare for people living with HIV. The result will be unnecessary death and suffering. That is why today, Thursday, June 22, we, the undersigned, are issuing this urgent [...]
A quarter of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Resigns in Protest, Including Majority of PACHA Members Living with HIV Contact: Gina Brown: 504.458.5247; Grissel Granados: 562.965.0055; Scott Schoettes: 773.474.9250 June 16, 2017: Today, 6 of the 21 members of [...]
Special Message from the Executive Director Dear PWN Community, This month, Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) celebrates our ninth year of fierce leadership by and for women living with HIV. As PWN-USA’s executive director and a woman living with [...]
Your voice matters! Positive Women's Network - USA is about to embark on a strategic planning process, including updates to our policy agenda in light of the new challenges we face in today's political climate. As the premier national voice [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ken Pinkela: ken.pinkela@seroproject.com or Jennie Smith-Camejo: jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org May 15, 2017: Building on the amazing success of the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy last year, the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are pleased [...]
May 11, 2017: This Sunday will mark the fourth Mother’s Day that Tracy Johnson has had to spend separated from Michael, her youngest son. That’s how long he has been incarcerated under Missouri’s archaic and draconian HIV criminalization laws, following a [...]
May 4, 2017 Dear PWN Community, We love you. We promise to keep fighting for, and alongside, you. Today, 217 members of the House knowingly voted to strip over 24 million people of their health care, and make insurance more [...]
