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We are a network of HIV + women and allies organizing and advocating for our rights.

If you are an HIV+ woman or support the rights of HIV+ women, join the U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN) as a member or ally today! You can also get more involved through our work groups (work groups are groups of advocates who work on a specific issue and meet mostly over the phone):

• Policy: the policy workgroup discusses current policy trends and how they impact women. For more info contact Naina.
• Communications: the communications workgroup strategizes PWN’s media and communications strategy including blogging and campaign. For  more info contact Sonia.
• Regional Organizing and Leadership Development: the ROLD workgroup support advocates regionally and provides mentorship for leadership development. For more info contact Brook.

PWN values - Steering Committee face to face meeting, 2009.

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Our Beginning: “We Will Control Our Own Destinies; We are the ‘Positive Women’s Network’”

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 for the upliftment of all women. We mobilize to challenge systems and governments that could not, would not or that simply were not responding to our needs as women. We educate ourselves; we fight for our own causes: We build coalitions that strengthen our positions. Why we even run for president of the United States. We have become makers, shapers and writers of our own history and our own destinies. Now then, another page in Women’s History was written in San Francisco June 15, 2008. Twenty-five (25) bold, brave, beautiful HIV Positive Women held the 1st ever convening for the establishment and solidification of what history will come to know as “The Positive Women’s Network”

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