🔥July’s Hot Topic🔥:In Light of Dobbs - Reproductive Health, Rights and JusticeJust weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, we are seeing and feeling the devastating consequences of a 40-year battle to limit reproductive freedom. As of August 1, abortion [...]
(Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up to receive quarterly updates from the HNP Collective!)The Health Not Prisons Collective is an intersectional national initiative launched in 2020 by Counter Narrative Project (CNP), Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), Sero Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Concerns about Molecular HIV Surveillance are heating upPWN is fighting to #endMHS (Molecular HIV Surveillance) and one crucial way to do that is to spread awareness [...]
Press Contact: Positive Women’s Network-USAVictoria Siciliano, Communications [email protected]**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**RESEARCHERS HALT SCIENTIFIC STUDY OVER ETHICS CONCERNS AROUND USE OF MOLECULAR HIV SURVEILLANCE DATAHIV advocacy organizations to host fireside chat with authors 14 July, 2022–A group of researchers (Diana M. Tordoff, Brian Minalga, [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥June’s Hot Topic🔥:Reproductive Health, Rights, and JusticeThe U.S. Supreme Court has done exactly what we expected: overturned the landmark case of Roe v Wade, which had solidified abortion [...]
We are devastated. We are heartbroken. And we will never stop fighting to Liberate Abortion.See how you can take action below.This morning we learned the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn the landmark case Roe v. Wade, effectively erasing the [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Celebrating 14 Years of PWN! We can't believe Positive Women's Network is already fourteen years old! Time flies when you're building community, training leaders, [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥May’s Hot Topic🔥:More than "thoughts and prayers."We demand policy change for the victims of mass shootings.When tragedy strikes, thoughts and prayers are not enough. We sorrowfully [...]
As part of our commitment to elevate racial justice in the HIV decriminalization movement, the Health Not Prisons Collective (HNP) is launching an initiative to support legislative advocacy and coalition involvement in HIV decriminalization efforts by Black, Indigenous, and other [...]
Georgia on Our MindsCongratulations on a Major Victory!The Health Not Prisons (HNP) Collective congratulates our partners, allies, and accomplices in Georgia on a momentous victory. This month, Governor Kemp signed SB 164 into law, making Georgia the 10th state to modernize its [...]
The Health Not Prisons Collective is an intersectional national initiative launched in 2020 by Counter Narrative Project (CNP), Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), Sero Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), and the U.S. Caucus of People Living with HIV (the HIV Caucus) — longtime collaborators led by, [...]
Extremists are trying to dismantle our rights to abortion and reproductive freedom. Take the pledge to fight for reproductive freedom this election cycle and beyond!We created a paper version of the pledge that's also a coloring page. Print it out, [...]
   April’s Hot Topic: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson will be coming down within the next two months. Let’s talk about what’s at stake! Pro-abortion advocates are bracing for the decision in [...]
A few weeks ago we asked our friends in Colorado to reach out to your Representatives to demand a stop to a bill that would increase policing and criminal penalties for people who use drugs. This bill has passed the [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!A Word From Our Federal GovernmentJudge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme CourtThe Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.by: Katie WillinghamApril 4, 2022Elation was the first thing I felt when I saw my first face, [...]
Our hearts are so full!PWN’s second annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) Day was a resounding success with 100 attendees on Zoom and nearly 1,000 post engagements on Facebook Live. With broad support from the HIV [...]
September 8, 2021: Another hurricane has hit the Gulf Coast region, and we know that a number of members and allies of Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN) are suffering the consequences: lengthy power outages, lost food and medications, property [...]
 September 7, 2021: Black leaders from nine HIV organizations across the U.S., including PWN, held a virtual, private meeting August 25 with artist Jonathan “DaBaby” Kirk to discuss HIV facts and share personal stories of living and thriving with HIV.The [...]
September 3, 2021: This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is now stacked with six reactionary justices after the Trump administration installed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, effectively gutted Roe v. Wade when a five-to-four majority--including all [...]
August 20, 2021 — Today, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) commemorates the annual Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD). Launched by the Southern AIDS Coalition in 2019, SHAAD is a day set aside for individuals all over the nation to [...]
August 18, 2021Dear PWN family,We understand and recognize how covid-19 continues to impact and disrupt our lives and our communities. As new information and guidance is released on covid-19 and vaccines, PWN will be here to break it down for [...]
Join PWN’s regional chapters and state leads to meet the women and trans folks living with HIV leading the way in their communitiesJuly 23, 2021: Everyone in the HIV community knows that the women and trans folks of Positive Women’s [...]
July 14, 2021: For some of us, the last time we were together in person was at PWN’s 2019 Organizing for Power Bootcamp. We gathered together to learn about electoral organizing, to perfect our voter engagement and grassroots organizing skills, [...]
40 years into the HIV epidemic, networks of people living with HIV demand a response that uplifts dignity, human rights, and wellness The policy agenda, written collaboratively by member networks of the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus, details concrete recommendations [...]
June 18, 2021: In 1619, the first 350 kidnapped Africans were shackled and shipped to what is today known as the United States of America. Black people had been free. Now they were enslaved by a vicious system built on [...]
June 16, 2021: People living with HIV and other conditions who know first-hand what it feels like to be denied insurance coverage due to preexisting conditions, as well as the millions of people who gained coverage through Medicaid expansion, can [...]
June 8, 2021Global activists from Positive Women's Network - USA, Sero Project, MPact, U.S. People living with HIV Caucus, HIV Racial Justice Now!, Desiree Alliance, International Community of Women Living with Women-North America, Global Network of People living with HIV/North [...]
April 22, 2021: We mourn, we rage, we rest, we soldier on.This week, a jury returned a guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was executed in broad daylight by police. Former cop Derek [...]
April 2, 2021:Â With Governor Ralph Northam's signature on the dotted line as of March 31, it's official: Virginia's HIV criminalization laws have been modernized and dramatically rolled back. The culmination of over two years of organizing and advocacy led by [...]
It's Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day! March 12, 2021 The day we've been counting down to since last fall is finally here: PWN's first annual Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day. [...]
March 8, 2021Greetings, PWN members and community,We are writing to you today with big news. Nearly thirteen years into the existence of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), we have transitioned to a co-directorship model. Venita Ray and Naina Khanna [...]
February 26, 2021: The disaster that has unfolded across the South and particularly in Texas over the past couple of weeks is anything but natural. It’s a catastrophe of manmade proportions—the perfect storm of climate crisis, structural racism, unchecked capitalism, [...]
February 8, 2021: Folks, we have a new president--and with that, we have a whole lot of new executive orders. If you got a little lost in the flurry of papers coming out of the White House, you are not [...]
The new Southern Women Advocacy Response Mobilization (SWARM) will be an ongoing space for HIV advocates in the South to discuss emerging issues, hear from expert speakers, and get training to maximize their advocacy February 12, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – [...]
PWN is proud of the role our leaders have played in this important step in ending injustice and stigma for people living with HIV in Virginia PWN VA State Lead Deirdre Johnson testifies before the VA Senate Judiciary Committee February [...]
February 5, 2021: As another National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day rolls around this Sunday, February 7, our inboxes will be inundated with well-meaning emails from HIV organizations and agencies highlighting, again, the racial disparities in HIV acquisition and health outcomes. [...]
January 20, 2021: Today, we have a new president and vice president. While the enormous challenges their administration faces will not be resolved overnight, President Biden can begin to undo some of the grievous damage done to our nation and [...]
January 15, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is thrilled to launch applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
January 8, 2021: Wednesday’s white supremacist failed coup in the U.S. Capitol was horrifying, scary, unprecedented – yet not unpredictable.The attack was not on a building. This was an attack on our people. The message of these insurrectionists, including those [...]
December 17, 2020: On December 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services released the draft HIV National Strategic Plan 2021-2025. Comments were due Monday, December 14. In collaboration with many of our partners, including the networks of people [...]
December 1, 2020: This World AIDS Day, we honor Black women in the HIV movement.Black women have been at the forefront of the HIV response since the earliest days of the domestic epidemic. Black women have marched, led, care-taken, stood [...]
November 9, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on their election by a decisive majority of total votes cast and electoral college votes in the highest turnout election in U.S. [...]
November 6, 2020: We've got a lot of feelings right now.Our spirits are bruised, our anxiety high. We bear the scars of generations of trauma, the legacy of white supremacy and patriarchy. They drive us to continue to fight for [...]
November 4, 2020Hey PWN family, You came through! In a year of a new pandemic; of a brutal backlash to uprisings for racial justice; and in the face of so many threats to our bodily autonomy, our families, and our [...]
November 2, 2020: Tomorrow night, the polls will close for the most significant election of our lives. Many of us have dedicated countless hours to making sure that every eligible voter in our community gets to have their voice heard. [...]
October 29, 2020: Maybe you're like the 66 million Americans who have already voted. If so... Haven't voted yet? Perhaps you've still got that mail or absentee ballot sitting on that corner of the kitchen table where your mail hangs [...]
October 22, 2020Dear Community, 2020 has been a tough year. A new pandemic. Police brutality. Fires and hurricanes. A racial justice uprising and a corresponding violent response by the state and white supremacist groups. So much loss and grief. And [...]
October 22, 2020: As many of you know, PWN has hosted a Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV on October 23 since 2014. Because our staff and members are all working hard on the November [...]
October 1, 2020: Black women deserve the world. At Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN), this is central to everything we do, from the policies we advocate for to the way we do our work. And we think it’s high [...]
