- Fundraising Toolkit to support grassroots efforts to attend AIDS 2012.
- Women’s Delegate Guide: a 40 page full-color guide for delegates on key issues for women.
- AIDS 2012 Trainings hosted by PWN.
PWN at AIDS 2012 & highlights on women and HIV:
Leadership of Women Living with HIV As a local host partner for AIDS 2012, PWN is committed to ensuring that women living with HIV, especially women of color and transgender women, are meaningfully involved in all conference planning, conference activities, and decision-making bodies. Below is a session featuring women living with HIV called “Activism Today: Reigniting the Spark” and Linda Scruggs’ plenary speech (1 hr 2 min mark) on turning the tide for women and girls.Intimate Partner Violence & Women Living with HIV Breaking new research from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) revealed that intimate partner violence leads to death for women living with HIV. PWN hosted a press conference on this research and solutions to ensure violence against women policies and services are thoroughly and comprehensively integrated with HIV policies and services. Read more about the press conference and stay tuned for the recording! NBC News, July 24, 2012 “The female face of HIV: ‘We don’t have to care for ourselves’” by Maggie Fox POZ, July 31, 2012 “Domestic Violence Doubles Risk of Death for HIV-Positive Women” by Laura Whitehorn
HIV Criminalization Advocates from around the world discussed the devastating impact of HIV-related criminalization and criminalization of many others including people who use drugs, people who engage in sex work, LGBTQI communities, and people of color. PWN presented at the session “Get a Test, Risk Arrest” and was a part of the consultations for the Global Commission on HIV and the Law whose session is below.
Breakthroughs in HIV research for women and girls AIDS 2012 was full of HIV research breakthroughs especially in prevention and prevention’s relationship to care. PWN released Bringing Gender Justice to HIV Prevention: A Blueprint for Women’s Action – an action plan reviewing the gaps in HIV prevention for all women. Also check out Dr. Gina Brown’s interview with Dr. Ron Valdiserri on next steps needed for women including exciting developments coming down the pipeline and the need to address intimate partner violence.
PWN-related activities at AIDS 2012: Symposia Session: Turning the Tide of the Impact of HIV in Black Diaspora Communities [presentations] Community Skills Development: Speak Up! How to Go Viral… Safely: HIV-positive People and Advocates Using the Media for Change [presentations] The Global Commission on HIV and the Law: A Movement for HIV Law Reform [video] Plenary, 7/25/12: Turning the Tide on Transmission featuring Linda Scruggs [video] Turning the Tide in the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in Washington, D.C. [video] Regional Session on USA and Canada [video] Stigma: Breaking the Silences – Dealing with Stigma and Exclusion for PLHIV and HIV/AIDS Affected Populations [video] Regional Session: Connecting the Dots: HIV and AIDS in the Context of the Black Diaspora [video] Oral Abstract Session Track D: Get a Test; Risk Arrest [presentations] IAS Policy: Towards an HIV Cure [video] AIDS Activism Today: Reigniting the Spark [video] Satellite Session: Choice Matters: Expanding the Method Mix of ARV-Based Prevention for Women in 2012 and Beyond [presentations] PWN-related Media Hits
- KPFA 94.1 Hard Knock Radio show on June 27 featuring PWNers Waheedah Shabazz-El, Barb Cardell, and Sonia Rastogi
- Trust Law, July 19, 2012 “Women to AIDS Conference: ‘We are the Pandemic’”
- Metro Weekly July 12, 2012, “Networking for Women: Positive Women’s Network brings the group’s important perspective to AIDS 2012″
- UPI.com, July 20, 2012, “AIDS is a Women’s Problem Too”
- Forbes, July 20, 2012 “Women want to be heard at DC AIDS Conference”
- Metro Weekly, July 21, 2012 “Human Rights Watch Decries Condom Confiscation”
- theBody.com, July 21, 2012 “Notes on Conference Day 1: MSMGF Pre-Conference and PWN Reception”
- Funders Concerned About AIDS Blog, July 21, 2012 “Turning the Tide on the Epidemic for Women @ AIDS 2012″
- theBody.com, July 22, 2012 “Notes on a Conference: MSMGF Pre-Conference and PWN Reception”
- theBody.com, July 23, 2012 “Rising Infection Rates, Stigma and Discrimination Addressed at AIDS 2012 Pre-Conference on Men Having Sex with Men and Transgender People”
- featured in In the Life Media
- theBody.com, July 24, 2012 “LIVING 2012: Turning the Tide Together and Not Without Women!”
- theBody.com, July 24, 2012 “Black Women are Greater Than AIDS”
- NBC News, July 24, 2012 “The female face of HIV: ‘We don’t have to care for ourselves’” by Maggie Fox
- The Root, July 24, 2012 “Black Women and HIV/AIDS: A Key Juncture”
- Open Democracy, July 25, 2012 “Time for the U.S. to Put Its Own House in Order” by Alice Welbourn
- Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 2012 “Area Activists Join a Washington Protest that Seeks More Action Against AIDS”
- AIDS Map, July 26, 2012 “In the real world HIV has changed; In the court room it is still the 1980s”
- The Daily Press, July 26, 2012 “Washington D.C. hosting International AIDS Conference”
- Voices of America, July 27, 2012 “Young People Navigate Relationships, Romance, and HIV”
- Boston Globe, July 27, 2012 “Living with the stigma of HIV: Many in state hide their status”
- McClatchy Newspapers, July 27, 2012 “Women Face Own Challenges Fighting HIV” posted in Twin Cities Pioneer Press and the Kansas City Star
- The Village Celebration, “Black Women, A Focal Point at the 2012 World AIDS Conference”
- NLAAN Blog, July 27, 2012 “The Missing Block: The Legal Aspect of HIV Prevention”
- Oakland Local, July 30, 2012 “East Bay Agencies Meet Up at International AIDS Conference”
- POZ, July 31, 2012 “Domestic Violence Doubles Risk of Death for HIV-Positive Women”
- Jan. 2012: Oakland, CA co-hosted with WORLD
- Jan. 2012: Philadelphia, PA co-hosted with PWN – Philly
- Jan. 2012: Burmingham, AL co-hosted with AIDS Alabama
- March 2012: PWN Southern Summit in FL
- April 2012: San Diego, CA co hosted with PWN- San Diego and Christie’s Place
- June 2012: Washington, D.C.
AIDS 2012: Hubs Call for Proposals due January 31, 2012
AIDS 2012 is doing a Hubs call for proposals for an organization with a focus on people who use drugs and/or harm reduction programs that would be interested in organizing and hosting one large or five or six smaller conference hubs during July 2012 and sit on the AIDS 2012 Hub Working Group. The deadline for application submission is January 31, 2012. Email Meg Warren at meg.warren {at} aids2012.org to learn more.PWN launches the Getting to AIDS 2012: Fundraising Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to give you everything you need to reach your fundraising goals so you can participate in the International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. (AIDS 2012). It includes:- a budget template you can use to set a fundraising goal
- tips on how to stay motivated throughout your fundraising journey
- how to craft an effective appeal that inspires people to support you
- step-by-step instructions on setting up an online fundraising page (to view a sample, click this link)
- strategies for how to reach a wide pool of potential donors
- guidelines on creating an action plan to implement offline, in-person fundraising ideas to reach your goal
- video tutorials
- detailed handouts,
- worksheets to help you begin implementing the information right away.