On Wednesday, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan, along with 9 other members of Congress, introduced the HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day Resolution, which would formally recognize February 28 as HIV Is Not A Crime (HINAC) Awareness Day. This awareness [...]
Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! FL ADAP Crisis Updates The Florida AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which provides people with low income who have limited or no prescription drug coverage access to HIV medication, has proposed radical, [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! PWN-USA is excited to announce two new appointments in our leadership. Please join us is welcoming Evany Turk as our new Co-Executive Director and Grissel Granados [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! The Fight Against Devastating Florida ADAP Changes What’s going on in Florida? The Florida AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which provides people with low income who [...]
Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks. 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥FLORIDA IS A TEST CASE: PROTECT ACCESS TO HIV MEDICATION & CARE The Florida [...]
*Content warning for discussion of state violence and murder and racial profiling.*As Co-Executive Directors of Positive Women’s Network–USA (PWN-USA), an organization rooted in the dignity, safety, and rights of all people, especially those living with HIV and other marginalized communities, [...]
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.PWN-USA member Stacy J. Senghor has a message for the President on this World AIDS Day!Watch the [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Giving Tuesday & End-of-Year CampaignBecause Every Woman Deserves Power launched strongly this Giving Tuesday. Our Wellness Is Political livestream reached new audiences across Facebook and Zoom — with 41% [...]
Positive Women’s Network-USA held another successful voter engagement campaign season that saw our local power grow exponentially. We are living in a moment that calls for real, meaningful relationships with our friends, families, neighbors, and communities. Connection is how we build [...]
Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks.🔥 Hot Topic 🔥Housing at Risk: The Trump regime proposed to drastically cut long-term housing funding for unhoused people The Trump [...]
Trans Day of Remembrance November 20, 2025 marks the 26th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where communities can come together to remember those of the trans and gender diverse community whose lives have been lost in the last [...]
Dear PWN sibling,PWN-USA’s Trans Day of Power is almost here! Trans Day of Power was created and inaugurated last year on November 18th, 2024 (during Trans Awareness Week) as a way to uplift and celebrate the lives and contributions of [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks.Hot Topic: Time is Ticking, and [...]
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. My pill box sits empty on my shiny kitchen counter. It’s not [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! ✊🏾 2025 National Day of Action ✊🏾 This National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Sign up for email from PWN here!We are proud to announce the official launch of the #PWNCares Mutual Aid Fund! Applications are now open to any trans or cis woman, gender diverse or transgender [...]
By: Elena FergusonThis week, the Trump regime began deploying the national guard to Chicago and threatened the arrest of the Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois. This comes in light of ramped-up violent immigration enforcement (ICE) operations that have [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Sign up for email from PWN here! Today, on the National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA affirms: HIV is a [...]
#HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! 5 days until a possible government shutdown Hi all, With the ongoing budget fight and potential government shutdown on the horizon, we wanted to make [...]
In 2021, Positive Women’s Network USA created Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day (CHBW), observed on August 18th. CHBW is a day to elevate and pay homage to the countless Black women who have always been [...]
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.“Preserving our Health and PrEParing for our Future.” AIDS Watch 2025 was from March 31 – April [...]
This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! 🤓 Apply Now to Be Our Development Specialist! 🤓 PWN-USA is excited to announce that we are [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! A Statement from Positive Women’s Network-USA on the Passage of the Disastrous Medicaid Cuts Reconciliation Bill Last week, Congress passed a bill that is not [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! Action Alert!! 📣 Call your Senators today! Hi PWN Family, Time-sensitive update: Congress is gearing up to slash nearly $1 trillion from life-saving programs our [...]
Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! Watch the Video Statement Here This Juneteenth, we’re not just commemorating freedom, we are calling out the sanitized celebrations and the performative allyship that too [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! 🔥 Launching Our 2025-2026 Policy Fellowship! 🔥 The PWN Policy Fellowship, now in its 7th year, is a year–long program designed to support cis & [...]
by Angela Hawkins 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.June 13, 2025These days, my “job” is calling social service agencies for help with [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! We know that HIV justice is deeply connected to immigrant justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, and to building on our long history of protesting to [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! In his latest fascist overreach, Trump has deployed the military to squash protests in Los Angeles. As solidarity rallies grow across the US, militarized responses [...]
We had the opportunity to catch up with our June Shero, Porchia Dees. Check out our interview with the PWN California State Lead!Porchia Dees is a part of the first generation of children who were born HIV positive, diagnosed in [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! All eyes are on the U.S. Senate! House Republicans passed their so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” H.R. 1 by one vote last week; but [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! MAGA Republicans are moving quickly to rip Medicaid away from millions of people so they can supercharge immigration detention and give massive tax breaks to [...]
The Current Dangers of MHS in a Trump AdministrationBrooke Davidoff, PWN Kansas City State LeadAs we internally freak out about friends, family, and neighbors being deported and quickly becoming victims of Trump’s racist regime’s illegal policies. I’m sure some of [...]
Proposal – HIV Modernization Bill to be introduced on the Missouri Senate Floorby Kneeshe Parkinson, Missouri State LeadJanuary 22, 2025 – Jefferson City, MissouriInvitation of Promo Missouri -Katy Erker-Lynch Executive DirectorDrive time: 2 hoursLength of visit: all dayOn Wednesday 1/22/25 [...]
The first time I ever heard about Molecular HIV Surveillance (MHS) was in 2018 at a Positive Women’s Network (PWN) summit in Myrtle Beach, SC. As someone who has advocated for the rights of women living with HIV for 20 [...]
Stand UpI'm standing up today.I’m standing up I’m standing up because I know too much I’m standing up today because I can I’m standing up for my black beautiful sisters who look like me I’m standing for my Black, beautiful sisters, For every voice [...]
Want more content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! 🤠 PWN State Leads Takeover! 🤠 PWN-USA is excited to share some of the powerful projects developed by PWN's State Leads as part of [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! Dear supporters, partners, and friends of Positive Women’s Network-USA, We want to share that there has been a recent transition within the leadership [...]
This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! 📢 PWN-Colorado Rocks Advocacy Day! 📢 Our PWN-Colorado chapter along with other state partners hosted our 8th [...]
Actions to take right now!Call your US Senators and tell them to vote NO on the House Republican continuing resolution. You can find their number and a script, HERE.Email to tell Congress to: Protect HIV Funding and oppose a long [...]
Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥 Hot Topic: Cuts [...]
Read this email on our website. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! Applications to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow close soon! Our deadline for the PWN-USA Year 7 Policy Fellowship cohort [...]
This statement is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! Join PWN in Recognizing HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day As a founding partner of the [...]
This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! 💐 Honoring Our Movement Mothers This Black History Month! 💐 In honor of Black History Month and [...]
Congratulations to February 2025 Shero of the Month: Stephanie Knupsky of Pennsylvania!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by January’s Shero, Ruby Garner of New York. Artist, activist, and accomplice, Stephanie is a member of Positive Women's Network Pennsylvania chapter. She [...]
Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥 Hot Topic: Shifts [...]
Want emails like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! Apply to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow today! Positive Women’s Network-USA is excited to open applications for the Year 7 of the Policy Fellowship [...]
Sharon DeCuir, PWN leader and reproductive justice champion for all women living with HIV in Louisiana, has joined the ancestorsIt is with profound sadness that we remember and honor our esteemed colleague and friend, Sharon DeCuir. Sharon was a fierce [...]
Hi everyone, We’re sure you all are watching the Trump administration’s latest authoritarian power-grab: temporarily ordering a freeze on federal grants and loan programs. This is part of the larger far-right strategy of pushing the poor and working class, especially QTBIPOC, deeper into crisis while [...]
