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- Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, February 7th, 2011
- Survey Shows HIV-positive Women Suffer from Human Rights Violations
- Positive Women’s Network – Philadelphia Region Condemns Policies that lead to Unsafe Abortions for Poor Women and Women of Color
- This Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, HIV-Positive Women in the U.S. Reflect and Recommit to Upholding the Human Rights of Millions of Women Affected by HIV Around the World
- HIV+ women and allies respond to threatened future of services for women across the U.S.
- SPEAK UP! Homophobia and Transphobia is Everyone’s Concerns
- Another Day, Another Vicious Attack on Women
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s unwavering leadership in protecting the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS
- Hear Us Now! Make Us A Priority, Women Count! PWN advocates to count HIV+ women in on World AIDS Day 2011!
- Oakland-based women’s HIV organization launches Count Us In! Campaign on World AIDS Day 2011 to uphold HIV-Positive women’s rights
- Detroit Dental Employee Banned from Touching Doorknobs Because He’s HIV+
- Safe Poz Love: Count HIV+ Women In On Valentine’s Day
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Waheedah Shabazz-El
Areas of expertise: HIV criminalization, prevention justice, female condom, community organizing, campaign planning, human rights for people who are incarcerated
Biography: Waheedah Shabazz-El is a 57 year old African American Muslim woman and retired postal worker who was diagnosed with AIDS in 2003. Shabazz-El is a founding abd advisory member of the U.S. Positive Women’s Network. She also coordinates PWN-Philly. Currently employed as an HIV Counselor/Tester at Philadelphia Fight, Shabazz-El is also a Steering Committee Member for the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (PJA) and Chair person for the Community Advisory Board at the University of Pennsylvania, Center for AIDS Research, CFAR. As a member the National HIV/AIDS Strategy Working Group, Shabazz-El was invited to the White House on July 13, 2010 for a reception where she met President Barack Obama. Less than two weeks later Shabazz-El represented PWN by delivering the closing address at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. She currently sits on the International AIDS Society’s Joint Programme Committee for the upcoming International AIDS Conference to take place in July 2012 in Washington, DC.
Waheedah’s work:
- International AIDS Conference 2010 Closing Ceremony Speech, Vienna, Austria, July 2010
- Count Us In! campaign video, December 2011
International AIDS Conference 2012
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