Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for! After years of power building in our communities, and months of deep conversations over phone and text, at the doors and at community events (we’ve contacted more than half a million voters!!) [...]
10-27-2022 We are disappointed to let you know that PA HB 103 has passed the Pennsylvania state legislature with broad, bipartisan support. HB 103 is now in the Governor’s hands. Governor Tom Wolf has 10 days to sign HB [...]
PWN is recognizing our very own Colorado Chapter as May 2022 Organizing Spotlight. The CO Chapter is committed to Get Out the Vote, and educate their neighbors about what’s on their ballot. In partnership with the Colorado Organizations Responding to [...]
May 3, 2022FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELast night we learned about a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court opinion that explicitly overturns Roe v. Wade, the momentous 1973 decision that guaranteed constitutional protections for abortion rights. It’s a horrifying and unprecedented [...]
In the United States, and especially in the South, Black and brown people make up the majority of new HIV diagnoses. Black women and women of color carry the burden of HIV diagnoses in America - a country with a [...]
Black women have always been the backbone of the HIV movement, fighting battles on multiple fronts despite being underpaid, systemically undervalued, and invisiblized. It is long past time for Black women to be given their flowers for all they’ve done. This [...]
“Love as ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’ Love is as love does. Love is an act of will–namely, both an intention and an action. There can be no [...]
As we approach another National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) today, we are forced to once again acknowledge the persistent disparities in care, prevention, and treatment for Black people living with or are at risk of HIV. For us, however, [...]
Positive Women’s Network - USA launched the R.I.S.E. (Resist, Inspire, Sustain Through Education) Gender Justice Training Academy in 2019. Over two years we paid, trained, prepared, and coached 13 transgender women of color living with HIV, most from the southern [...]
PWN's January 2022 Organizing spotlight is with our partner organization, The Well Project (TWP)! TWP is a non-profit organization whose mission is to change the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic through a unique and comprehensive focus on women and girls. [...]
Welcome to 2022, family! We’re starting this year off with so much momentum from your support of our work in 2021. In what feels like an annual tradition, our communities and our work were tested last year. But faced with a [...]
The Counter Narrative Project This month’s organizing spotlight is on the Counter Narrative Project (CNP)! Founded in 2014 to amplify the voices of Black gay men, CNP works at the intersection of narrative and social justice. PWN is proud [...]
For immediate releaseDecember 1, 2021For media inquiries contact [email protected] or 626-274-5793This World AIDS Day follows another year of struggle, grief and loss in our community. In 2021 alone, Positive Women’s Network-USA lost two of our founding members – Loren Jones [...]
Image by Micah Bazant with Forward Together Tomorrow, November 20th, marks the 22nd year of Trans Day of Remembrance/Resilience, where we remember, honor, and uplift the lives of our trans siblings who were taken too soon from us. Globally, [...]
Hey, fam! PWN had some incredibly long weeks organizing our members and allies to show up and move folks to get out the vote on election day, November 2nd. Now that we’ve rested a bit, we want to share the [...]
For immediate release:: Molecular HIV Surveillance “a perfect storm” in the context of HIV-related criminalisationOctober 20, 2021A new briefing paper published today by Positive Women’s Network USA on behalf of the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition aims to support people living [...]
The Health Not Prisons Collective (HNP) is excited to launch the 2022 Advocate Funding Project. HNP is a group of 5 national organizations, The Counter Narrative Project, Transgender Law Center, US People Living with HIV Caucus, Positive Women’s Network--USA, and [...]
