On this Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), Positive Women’s Network-USA reaffirms our daily commitment to our trans and non-binary family, and our dedication to elevate and center transgender leaders within our organization and across the HIV field. PWN was founded [...]
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, [...]
Art by Glori Tuitt + @fwdtogether We Read Their NamesWe read the names of precious lives lostTo open our eyes to the enormous costOf bigotry, religion, ignorance, and hate,And honor those who too soon met their fate.Sisters [...]
April 30, 2020: How are you centering the voices of women of trans experience of color living with HIV? How does your organization support the leadership of folks of trans experience? What is currently underway to ensure that women of [...]
November 20, 2019: For 20 years, November 20 has been observed as Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day for for various communities to come together to honor the lives of transgender people that were lost to violence. PWN-USA envisions [...]
TODAY, October 23, 2019, is Positive Women's Network - USA's sixth annual Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. Sign On to Endorse the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV More [...]
May 24, 2019: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule reinterpreting the scope of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Section 1557 is the non-discrimination section of the ACA. It bars health [...]
State Violence Won’t End Interpersonal Violence. What Will?by Kelly Flannery, PWN If/When/How Reproductive Justice HIV Legal FellowMay 23, 2019: Over 60% of women living with HIV in the U.S. have experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. [...]
April 12, 2019: Today, the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military went into effect. The ban is reminiscent of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which was repealed in 2011, in that it allows transgender troops to [...]
January 22, 2019: The Supreme Court of the United States has given the Trump administration the green light to discriminate against people of trans experience. Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) strongly condemns this latest assault on the rights and dignity of [...]
November 27, 2018: PWN-USA members and staff will be at the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in beautiful Los Angeles, California, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations if you [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA Recommits to Trans Rights, Safety, and Justice on Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience November 20, 2018: Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien. Viccky Gutierrez. Zakaria Fry. Celine Walker. Tonya Harvey. Phylicia Mitchell. Amia Tyrae Berryman. Sasha Wall. [...]
October 26, 2018Greetings everyone, Check out this helpful update and analysis from PWN’s Anand Kalra. I know there is a lot of confusion about exactly what this "Trump Administration Erases Trans People" thing is. This is my breakdown of what [...]
Dear PWN Community,Today, October 23, 2018, is the fifth National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. This year’s Day of Action falls at a time when a crucial part of our community—people of trans experience—are [...]
Take the pledge! No #AIDS2020 in Trump's USA! #AIDS2020ForAll AIDS2020ForAll.org Sign on and let IAS know that if all are not welcome, then none of us are. We must stand with those of us living with and impacted by [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Cecilia Chung +1.415.902.0216, cecilia@transgenderlawcenter.org Naina Khanna +1.510.681.1169, nkhanna@pwn-usa.org George Ayala +1.213.268.1777, gayala@mpactglobal.orgBAY AREA, U.S. AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND 2020 INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE BE REMOVED FROM U.S. They cite danger for potential participants and human rights violations in the U.S. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA RELEASES POLICY AGENDA UPDATED TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2018 AND BEYONDThe updated policy agenda, over a year in the making, is responsive to the current political [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA FOCUSES ON THE CHALLENGES FACING NEWLY DIAGNOSED TRANS WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV IN THE 4TH VIDEO IN THE #PWNCARES SERIES The video will be premiered during a virtual coffee table chat [...]
June 19, 2018: The long-anticipated HIV Is Not a Crime III Training Academy, organized by the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network – USA, took place June 3-6 at IUPUI in Indianapolis. What a remarkable three days it was!Anchored by [...]
TDOR artwork courtesy of Forward Together. Visit their page for more artwork and writing by trans artists!Today, November 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR as it is commonly called. The transgender community, especially transgender women of [...]
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 [...]
A Joint Statement from Counter Narrative Project, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, Positive Women’s Network – USA, TransLatin@ Coalition, Treatment Action Group, the US People Living with HIV Caucus and Venas Abiertas Leer en español aquí you have to understand, that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Art by Jennifer Maravillas January 20, 2017: Today, a thin-skinned, authoritarian narcissist who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes is being sworn into the highest office in the United States, and arguably the most powerful position [...]
November 18, 2016: Transgender Day of Remembrance—or Transgender Day of Resilience, to give full credit to the power, strength, creativity and determination our brothers and sisters of trans experience have shown in the face of relentless persecution—is observed November 20 of [...]
November 15, 2016: Today, we grieve. Tomorrow, we fight. Resistance in the face of terror is nothing new for our communities. Our bodies are transgressive: Black, brown, and otherwise pigmented; queer; HIV-containing; border-crossing. Our bodies and those of our ancestors have [...]
We are heartbroken by the recent tragedy at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida which killed 49 people, the majority of whom were Latinx and other LGBTQ people of color. As women living with and affected by HIV, many of us [...]
Tiommi (right) and Arianna Lint (left) at White House, Feb. 10, 2016 by Tiommi Jenae Luckett Going to the White House was truly something I never had on my radar to do for personal reasons. However, that was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Olivia Ford, oford@pwn-usa.org / 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 – [...]
Can you believe it's been almost FIVE YEARS since the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) was released in July 2010? The NHAS is a plan created under President Obama to comprehensively address the domestic HIV epidemic. The first NHAS included [...]
By Tommy Luckett What do you do when you are invited into a space and seemingly forgotten once you are present? If you happen to be one of three beautiful, intelligent, and outspoken transgender women of color named Tela La’Raine [...]
Every day, PWN-USA inspires, informs and mobilizes women living with HIV to advocate for changes that improve our lives and uphold our rights. In 2013, we went through an extensive strategic planning process and listened to hundreds of stakeholders. Over [...]
By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Board Member and woman openly living with HIV One cannot deny the devastating impact of physical bruising, scarring, mutilation or death of women and girls due to violence because these unsightly images represent some of the [...]
This Mother’s Day, the Positive Women’s Network – USA reclaims and redefines motherhood from our perspective. As a network for all women living with HIV, including transgender women, we are: Women who have been discouraged, shamed, and forbidden from having [...]
By Dee Borrego On World AIDS Day, the world remembers those of us living with HIV/AIDS, unlike the 364 other days of the year when our community becomes another sad statistic on the evening news about “other places.” As Americans, [...]
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