Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Ready, Set, REPEAL: Ending HIV Criminalization Cannot WaitThe Health Not Prisons Collective kicked off our Ready, Set, REPEAL campaign last week! The REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act (H.R. 6111) [...]
We recently caught up with PWN Greater Houston Area (GHA) chapter members Deborah Somoye and Selena Harbor to learn about their chapter’s mission, function, current projects, and how allies can support it. This month, we shine the Organizing Spotlight on [...]
August 20, 2022(Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up to receive updates from Positive Women's Network!)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 [...]
(Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up to receive updates from the Health Not Prisons Collective here.)The Health Not Prisons (HNP) Collective is proud to present our Ready, Set, REPEAL Toolkit for Advocates. HNP is mobilizing folks across the [...]
A State by State Advocacy GuideCategory 1: Your state has modernized or repealed its laws criminalizing HIV. CA, CO, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NV, TX, VA, WACongrats! If your state is in gold, your state [...]
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: Mira LernerAugust 12, 2022HIV decriminalization and reproductive justice are both grounded in the right to bodily [...]
Laws criminalizing HIV are harmful and increase risk of violence for people living with HIV – especially for communities most impacted by the epidemic and discriminatorily targeted by law enforcement.HIV criminalization (see “Key phrases” for definition) is a racial, gender, [...]
Bodily autonomy is the simple but radical concept that individuals have the right to control what does and does not happen to our bodies. When we have full bodily autonomy, not only are we empowered to make decisions about our [...]
Last year, networks of people living with HIV in the United States came together as the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus (HIV Caucus) to outline our policy agenda for the federal response to the HIV epidemic. Today, on the [...]
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: Lisa Johnson-LettAugust 10, 2022Introduction: (Disclaimer) The words I speak are my words reflecting the opinions and [...]