**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, MAY 17** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347-553-5174 Even as a bill repealing Colorado’s HIV criminalization laws awaits the governor’s pen, much work remains to be done to bring laws up to date with current science in [...]
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY, MAY 17** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected], 347-553-5174 Even as a bill repealing Colorado’s HIV criminalization laws awaits the governor’s pen, much work remains to be done to bring laws up to date with current science in [...]
Photo credit: Victoria Law; from thebody.com May 13, 2016: A Colorado team known as the "CO Mod Squad," led by PWN-USA Colorado, in partnership with the Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS (CORA) and the Colorado Department of Public Health, [...]
May 6, 2016: In just a little over a week, the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy will convene at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. There is still time to register to train alongside committed advocates building [...]
April 11, 2016: The HIV is Not a Crime II Training Academy will be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 17 – 20, 2016 – you can still register to be part of this transformative advocacy training experience! Join co-organizers PositiveWomen’s Network [...]
March 31, 2016: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is thrilled to announce our call for session proposals for SPEAK UP! A National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV 2016. We invite proposals for various types of sessions (affinity groups, [...]
PWN-USA Colorado members and allies March 22, 2016: PWN-USA Colorado, in partnership with allies including the CO Mod Squad, the Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS (CORA) and the Colorado Department of Public Health, has made enormous strides toward [...]
March 3, 2016 by Teresa Sullivan, Senior Member of PWN-USA Philadelphia, Board Member of PWN-USA In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their [...]
FEBRUARY 12, 2016: President Obama released the final budget of his presidency this week. While several components of his proposed budget offer good news for women living with and vulnerable to HIV, Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) remains concerned [...]
PWN-USA Statement for National Black HIV Awareness Day by Vanessa Johnson and Waheedah Shabazz-El Black Americans have endured an exceptionally brutal history which complicates our present and challenges our future. Torn from our native land--the continent that gave birth to humankind--we have [...]
PWN-USA members were on the move this World AIDS Day, representing at events from coast to coast! (Don't see your event and/or photos here? Please contact Jennie at [email protected] with relevant info and/or photos and she will add them!) [...]
Both documents represent missed opportunities to fully address the HIV epidemic in the U.S. As researchers, government officials, policy experts and advocates gather for the National HIV Prevention Conference, a diverse coalition of networks of people living with HIV (PLHIV), [...]
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MON. 12/7 & TUES. 12/8** Contact: Suraj Madoori, 708-590-9806, [email protected] or Jennie Smith-Camejo, 347-553-5174, [email protected] ATLANTA: This week, as representatives of multiple federal agencies and organizations working in HIV prevention and care convene in Atlanta for the [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, [email protected] / 347-553-5174 December 2, 2015 - Yesterday, on World AIDS Day 2015-a day to remember the millions who have died of HIV-related causes over the past three decades, honor long-term survivors, and to strategize the way forward [...]
Positive Women’s Network - USA Statement on World AIDS Day 2015 Dec 1, 2015 - Just four days ago, an atrocious act of terror was perpetrated against Planned Parenthood, an essential source of healthcare for working and low-income women, men [...]
Charlie Sheen's public disclosure of his HIV status, while producing some of the predictable backlash and stigmatizing comments we have come to expect, has also presented a fantastic opportunity to educate the general public about the current science concerning HIV, [...]
Last month, PWN-USA and the Women's HIV Program (WHP) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) submitted a letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB), administrators of the federal Ryan White Program, recommending key National [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tami Haught: [email protected]; (641) 715-4182 July 21, 2015, Ft. Walton Beach, FL - The SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) are co-hosting the HIV is Not a Crime criminalization education and advocacy track [...]
Joint Statement on the Sentencing of Michael L. Johnson Counter Narrative Project, Positive Women’s Network (PWN-USA), HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, National Center for Lesbian Rights On Monday July 13, 2015, Michael L. Johnson was sentenced to 30½ years in prison (a [...]
This is Part 5 of the five-part statement "Five Things Media Makers Can Do NOW to Stand Up to HIV Stigma." Read the full statement as a single article A person’s choice to tell someone their HIV status is complicated. [...]
This is Part 4 of the five-part statement "Five Things Media Makers Can Do NOW to Stand Up to HIV Stigma." Read the full statement as a single article There are facts and there are fictions about HIV. Choose facts. It [...]
This is Part 3 of the five-part statement "Five Things Media Makers Can Do NOW to Stand Up to HIV Stigma." Read the full statement as a single article HIV is not just a man’s issue; it never has been. Talk [...]
This is Part 2 of the five-part statement "Five Things Media Makers Can Do NOW to Stand Up to HIV Stigma." Read the full statement as a single article #WeAreAllPeople: Put the “Living” in “People Living with HIV” From the beginning [...]
This is Part 1 of the five-part statement "Five Things Media Makers Can Do NOW to Stand Up to HIV Stigma." Read the full statement as a single article Watch your language! The stigma attached to HIV is a significant barrier to living [...]
Can you believe it's been almost FIVE YEARS since the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) was released in July 2010? The NHAS is a plan created under President Obama to comprehensively address the domestic HIV epidemic. The first NHAS included [...]
This piece is adapted from a version originally posted on Advocacy Without Borders’ blog. WE NEED YOUR HELP. BADLY. I have written before about HIV criminalization, here and here. Most recently, though, when I have written about it I have [...]
By Susan Mull Nikki Giovanni wrote a poem called “The New Yorkers.” This is the beginning of that poem: “In front of the bank building after six o’clock the gathering of the bag people begins. In cold weather they huddle [...]
By Tommy Luckett What do you do when you are invited into a space and seemingly forgotten once you are present? If you happen to be one of three beautiful, intelligent, and outspoken transgender women of color named Tela La’Raine [...]
Women with HIV Demand a Minimum Standard of Care, Bold New Initiatives to Ensure High-Quality Services for Black Women and Transgender Women of Color FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 April 13, 2015 – Washington, DC [...]
Download a PDF version of this document. The next National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) must include factors vital to the survival and well-being of women living with HIV. Women continue to account for nearly a third of the estimated 1.2 million [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 April 10, 2015 – This National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), Positive Women’s Network - USA honors young trans and non-trans women living with HIV – long-term survivors as well as [...]
By Grissel Granados In my opinion, the greatest needs of young women living with HIV include, but are not limited to, adequate medical services that are responsive to our sexual and reproductive health needs. As a young woman living with [...]
By Mina Hi! I’m Mina. I’m a teenager and I’m in middle school. I’m adopted and I have a big family. I’m HIV positive. I’m the only one of my family members that has HIV. My brothers and sister didn’t [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 March 10, 2015 – Each year, on March 10, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) is observed in the US. But at Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA), a [...]
Download the full report (PDF) Download a one-page summary of the report (PDF) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Nerissa Irizarry, Positive Women’s Network-USA - [email protected] Melanie Medalle, SisterLove, Inc. - [email protected] Ariel Tazkargy, National Women’s Health Network - [email protected] March 10, 2015 - March [...]
By Wanda Brendle-Moss, PWN-USA Member This article originally appeared on March 4, on The Well Project's A Girl Like Me blog. Wanda Brendle-Moss. As we approach National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10, 2015, my [...]
By Rachel Moats, PWN-USA-San Diego Member Rachel Moats. Two months ago my life was turned upside down for the second time. The first time was on March 19, 2013, when I found out I was HIV Positive. I [...]
By Tami Haught, PWN-USA Member Tami Haught. How we introduce ourselves makes a difference; the words we use matter. When asked at a meeting to introduce myself, I will start with: My name is Tami Haught and I [...]
By Loren Jones, PWN-USA Board Member Loren Jones. Some of us, due to our chance assignment from birth to certain races, genders, and classes, have pretty much been outlaws all our lives. And now, here we go; another [...]
By Loren Jones, PWN-USA Board Member Loren Jones. Some of us, due to our chance assignment from birth to certain races, genders, and classes, have pretty much been outlaws all our lives. And now, here we go; another [...]
By Heather It wasn’t until February 10, 2015, that I truly realized the profound connection between trauma and HIV. I always knew about a correlation, but what did that really mean to me? It meant everything I had read regarding [...]
By Olga Irwin, Regional Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Ohio Olga Irwin. Olga Irwin studied at Youngstown State University and became a licensed social worker in 2009. She was diagnosed with AIDS in 1999. Since her diagnosis she has become involved in [...]
How These Laws Impact the Lives of Women with HIV By Teresa Sullivan, PWN-USA Board Member Teresa Sullivan. Now that the United States has access to over 36 medicines for the treatment of HIV, people are living longer [...]
By Penny DeNoble, PWN-USA Member Penny DeNoble. Tuesday, March 10, 2015, is the 10th annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. As social, community, and government groups across the nation prepare to bring awareness to the susceptibility that [...]
To: Rhode Island Legislative Committee Members Re: Public Testimony on House Bill 5245 Hearing Date: February 24, 2015 Positive Women’s Network-USA, a national member body of women living with HIV, opposes H5245. This proposed bill stands in stark contrast to [...]
On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Youth, and Transgender Women FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 February 7, 2015 – This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), Black women remain 20 times [...]
By Morénike Giwa Onaiwu and Venita Ray Elisha Maxine Henson was a Texas mother with a big love for family, especially her two sons. A stay-at-home mom with a bright smile, Elisha enjoyed riding motorcycles and was a member of a [...]
