April 2, 2021: 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 [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**COALITION TO MODERNIZE SOUTH CAROLINA’S HIV LAWS TO CONVENE FEB. 1The new coalition will work toward the goal of making South Carolina the first Southern state to change its discriminatory HIV criminalization lawsThe South Carolina chapter of Positive [...]
Thursday, Sept. 21 ISSUE: It’s now or never. Senate Republicans have just over a week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the devastating Graham-Cassidy proposal is gaining steam, even though it will do exactly what previous repeal bills would [...]
August 8: We did it! Through people power, we killed the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act! At least for now, and just by one vote. We have lots of work ahead of us. All members of Congress are home for the August [...]
September 19, 2016 - It's hard to believe, but we're only about a week away from SPEAK UP! 2016 National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV. We'd like to thank our dedicated Summit Planning Committee for their many hours of time [...]
PWN-USA Colorado members and allies March 22, 2016: PWN-USA Colorado, in partnership with allies including the CO Mod Squad, the Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS (CORA) and the Colorado Department of Public Health, has made enormous strides toward [...]
March 17, 2016 PWN-USA is excited to announce our launch of two new web-based training series this month: a 4-part communications training series and a 3-part policy training series, open to all women living with HIV and HIV advocates. Click [...]
PWN-USA members were on the move this World AIDS Day, representing at events from coast to coast! (Don't see your event and/or photos here? Please contact Jennie at [email protected] with relevant info and/or photos and she will add them!) [...]
This piece is adapted from a version originally posted on Advocacy Without Borders’ blog. WE NEED YOUR HELP. BADLY. I have written before about HIV criminalization, here and here. Most recently, though, when I have written about it I have [...]
The impact of advocacy by women living with HIV is happening, and is felt, all the time in communities where our members and sisters are doing their work on behalf of their communities. World AIDS Day is a time to [...]
By Naimah Oneal, Regional Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Ohio Naimah Oneal. My name is Naimah Oneal; I am a mother, grandmother, auntie and lastly I am a woman living with HIV. I must say that I am truly living with HIV [...]
By Nancy Asha Molock, Regional Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Philadelphia Nancy Asha Molock. I attended AIDSWatch 2014 for the first time April 27-29. I had heard so much about it from other PWN-USA members, so I was elated to be awarded [...]
By Nancy Asha Molock, Co-Chair, PWN-USA-Philadelphia Asha sharing a moment with a new advocacy comrade at AIDSWatch. “HIV is preventable” ... there is something about that saying that just doesn't sit well with me. Sometimes I would read it on [...]
On April 28 and 29, more than 300 HIV advocates descended on Washington, D.C., for AIDSWatch, the largest annual national constituent-based advocacy event focused on HIV in the U.S. -- two days of trainings and visits with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. [...]
By Barb Cardell, PWN-USA Member in Colorado “Given… trends and issues, efforts to stem the tide of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic will increasingly depend on how and to what extent its effect on women and girls is addressed” – [...]
by Maria Cruz, PWN-USA Philadelphia I am a HIV positive recovering addict, and live a wonderful life. However, the wonderful life I live now wasn’t always so bright. It was during my incarceration that I first learned that I was [...]
