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Join PWN in Honoring Juneteenth

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 [...]

2021-06-18T03:24:30-04:00June 18th, 2021|Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Celebrate and Honor Black Women, racial justice|Comments Off on Join PWN in Honoring Juneteenth

Accountability Is Not Justice. We Demand More.

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 [...]

2021-06-04T01:49:42-04:00April 22nd, 2021|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, racial justice, racism|Comments Off on Accountability Is Not Justice. We Demand More.

This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Let’s Celebrate.

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. [...]

2021-02-17T01:03:51-05:00February 5th, 2021|Black Lives Matter, HIV Awareness Days, NBHAAD, racial justice|Comments Off on This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Let’s Celebrate.

This World AIDS Day, Commit to Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the Movement with PWN

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 [...]

8 minutes, 46 seconds: A love letter to our people

*** Content warnings: anti-Black racism, violence, pain, killing of Black people by the police, lack of accountability by the State, KKK *** June 2, 2020PWN family,We love you.We have been rocked and our hearts are broken by the footage of George [...]

2020-06-02T17:26:41-04:00June 2nd, 2020|Black Lives Matter|2 Comments

If You Are Going to Do One Thing to Honor National Black HIV Awareness Day, Please Read and Share We the People: A Black Plan to End HIV in America.

The Blacker the Plan: Black AIDS Institute’s groundbreaking new report challenges HIV advocates to address anti-Blackness, invest in Black communities, end disparities in health care access, and build capacity in the Black community to respond to the epidemic. Feb. 7, 2020: [...]

Support Black Power and Black Leadership: Today and Everyday

Venita Ray, Deputy DirectorFebruary 07, 2019: As a Black woman living with HIV, I always approach National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) with a little bit of dread. Each year, we, hear the same numbers: “Black folks represent 12% [...]

2019-02-07T17:14:58-05:00February 7th, 2019|Black Lives Matter, health care, HIV Awareness Days, racial justice, racism, resistance|Comments Off on Support Black Power and Black Leadership: Today and Everyday

HIV Racial Justice Now Announces Interim Steering Committee

photo credit: Johnnie Kornegay Leer en español aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Leaders of Color in the HIV Movement Form A Strategic Working Group To Advance the Movement Towards Racial JusticeCONTACT: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169, [email protected] orCharles Stephens, (404) 550-4697, [email protected] 21, 2018: In July 2017, [...]

2018-02-21T19:38:37-05:00February 21st, 2018|Black Lives Matter, human rights, immigrant rights, Intersectionality, Prevention Justice, racial justice, racism, Uncategorized|Comments Off on HIV Racial Justice Now Announces Interim Steering Committee

HIV Leaders of Color Announce Their Declaration of Liberation

The Framework to Build a Racially Just and Strategic HIV Movement Addresses Root Causes of the Epidemic and Lights a New Way Forward **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contacts: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169; [email protected] Charles Stephens, (404) 550-4697; [email protected] November 9, 2017: What could radical leadership look like [...]

Disparities in Health Outcomes, Barriers to Care Are About More Than Just Access

Updated Sept. 10 September 8, United States Conference on AIDS, 2017. Washington, D.C.: Black men wait 32% longer to cross the street than white men, according to a study from Portland, Oregon. Males in their 20s, identically dressed, had very distinct [...]

This #MothersDay, Help #FreeMichaelJohnson and Bring Him Home to His Mom

May 11, 2017: This Sunday will mark the fourth Mother’s Day that Tracy Johnson has had to spend separated from Michael, her youngest son. That’s how long he has been incarcerated under Missouri’s archaic and draconian HIV criminalization laws, following a [...]

2017-11-29T21:58:34-05:00May 11th, 2017|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, HIV epidemic, human rights, Stigma, Uncategorized|Comments Off on This #MothersDay, Help #FreeMichaelJohnson and Bring Him Home to His Mom

On #NWGHAAD, PWNers Assert and Celebrate #BodilyAutonomy

March 16, 2017: For National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD), PWNers from coast to coast hosted and participated in events, in person and online, raising awareness and educating our communities about HIV and its impact on women and girls and [...]

On #NWGHAAD, We Celebrate #BodilyAutonomy

March 10, 2017: Today is National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day. In honor of the approximately 300,000 women living with HIV in the United States, please join Positive Women's Network - USA in asserting and celebrating the bodily autonomy of [...]

I Am My Sisters’ and Brothers’ Keeper

An Open Letter from Positive Women’s Network – USA in Observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) February 7, 2017: From the moment the winner of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was announced, many of us of African descent have [...]

2017-11-29T22:38:31-05:00February 7th, 2017|Black Lives Matter, HIV epidemic, human rights, Intersectionality, racism, resistance, Uncategorized|Comments Off on I Am My Sisters’ and Brothers’ Keeper

Five Weeks Until Huntsville! Register NOW for the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy

April 11, 2016: The HIV is Not a Crime II Training Academy will be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 17 – 20, 2016 – you can still register to be part of this transformative advocacy training experience! Join co-organizers PositiveWomen’s Network [...]

2017-11-30T23:46:45-05:00April 11th, 2016|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, HIV epidemic, human rights, Organizing Tools, PLHIV Sexuality, Prevention Justice, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Five Weeks Until Huntsville! Register NOW for the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy

The Epidemic Among Black Women Requires More than Rhetoric

PWN-USA Statement for National Black HIV Awareness Day by Vanessa Johnson and Waheedah Shabazz-El Black Americans have endured an exceptionally brutal history which complicates our present and challenges our future. Torn from our native land--the continent that gave birth to humankind--we have [...]

2017-12-01T15:36:00-05:00February 5th, 2016|Access to Care, Black Lives Matter, Economic Justice, HIV Awareness Days, HIV epidemic, human rights, Intersectionality, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, PLHIV Sexuality, Uncategorized, Women-centered Care|Comments Off on The Epidemic Among Black Women Requires More than Rhetoric

"We Gonna Be Alright": An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing   Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]

“We Gonna Be Alright”: An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing   Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]

2017-12-01T16:27:47-05:00August 10th, 2015|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, Economic Justice, HIV epidemic, human rights, Intersectionality, Organizing Tools, Prevention Justice, Stigma, Trans Justice, Violence|Comments Off on “We Gonna Be Alright”: An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

PWN-USA Salutes Progress and Identifies Opportunities for Women in the New National HIV/AIDS Strategy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347-553-5174 July 31, 2015 –Yesterday, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) unveiled the newest version of the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS, or Strategy), updated to 2020. Positive Women’s Network – [...]

Organizational Sign-on Statement in Response to Michael Johnson Sentencing

Joint Statement on the Sentencing of Michael L. Johnson Counter Narrative Project, Positive Women’s Network (PWN-USA), HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, National Center for Lesbian Rights On Monday July 13, 2015, Michael L. Johnson was sentenced to 30½ years in prison (a [...]

2015-07-15T12:51:00-04:00July 15th, 2015|Access to Care, Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, human rights, Intersectionality, Media Justice, Stigma, Trauma, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Organizational Sign-on Statement in Response to Michael Johnson Sentencing

We Stand with Michael Johnson: HIV Is Not a Crime

HIV and Justice Organizations Stand with Michael Johnson and All Black Gay Men, and Condemn Laws Criminalizing HIV-Positive Status As organizations committed to human rights, social justice, and dignity for people living with and vulnerable to HIV, we release this [...]

Do All Black Lives Matter?

On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Youth, and Transgender Women FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, [email protected] / 347.553.5174 February 7, 2015 – This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), Black women remain 20 times [...]

2015-02-07T05:30:08-05:00February 7th, 2015|Access to Care, Black Lives Matter, Count Me In, Intersectionality, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Trauma, Uncategorized, Violence, Women-centered Care|Comments Off on Do All Black Lives Matter?

PWN-USA Stands with Ferguson and Demands Justice for Michael Brown

Dear community, On Monday, a St. Louis grand jury failed to bring charges against Ferguson County Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed 18-year old Michael Brown. This verdict is horrifying and devastating for Michael's family, and for folks in [...]

2014-11-26T07:18:52-05:00November 26th, 2014|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, Economic Justice, human rights, Trauma, Violence|Comments Off on PWN-USA Stands with Ferguson and Demands Justice for Michael Brown
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