In this issue:
- Building Power for Puerto Rican Women Living with HIV
- Take Your Advocacy to the Next Level–Apply for the 2020 PWN Policy Fellowship
- Sign Up for the PWNCares Sister Circle Network
- Don’t Miss Your Chance–Last Chance to Submit an Abstract for HIV Is Not A Crime 4!
- Webinars You Won’t Want to Miss
- Love Positive Women: Receive a Handmade Valentine’s Day Card
Building Power for Puerto Rican Women Living with HIV
“I didn’t know too much about PWN, but I wanted to empower Latin women. Now I know so much!” This was the reaction of just one of the twelve women living with HIV who attended a special two-day pilot training in New York of a Spanish language curriculum that Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) created in partnership with AIDS United. The goal? To develop a training program for women living with HIV in Puerto Rico, based on PWN’s mission and values, in Spanish and culturally tailored to Puerto Rican women.
The pilot training took place December 14-15, 2019, at Iris House, with the help and support of PWN New York, and included modules on:
- PWN’s mission, vision, and values
- Successes and challenges unique to women living with HIV in Puerto Rico
- Meaningful involvement of people living with HIV (MIPA)
- Laws and regulations impacting people living with HIV in Puerto Rico
- Gender justice
- Next steps for Puerto Rico
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Take Your Advocacy to the Next Level!
Apply for the 2020 PWN Policy Fellowship
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Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to launch applications for the fourth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to engage effectively in federal, state and local policy and advocacy.
Our flagship PWN Policy Fellowship focuses on training women and TGNC people living with HIV overcome barriers that have traditionally kept us from influencing federal, state, and local policy. The fellowship curriculum is rooted in social justice and applies an explicit gender justice and racial justice lens to all aspects of policy advocacy.
Best of all, you do not need to be an expert or seasoned advocate to be a PWN Policy Fellow–you just need to demonstrate genuine interest in advocacy and be ready to learn and work!
| Learn more and apply here |
Work with Women Living with HIV?
Join the #PWNCares Sister Circle
#PWNCares Sister Circle will provide tools, resources, and tips for service and care providers and support groups working with women living with HIV to address some of the life challenges they face — while offering opportunities for them to connect with a vibrant national community of women thriving with HIV.
Join the Sister Circle network of providers and support group facilitators to help bring more social connection to the women living with HIV you support!
| Learn more and sign up here |
Don’t Miss Your Chance…
HINAC 4 Abstracts Are Due Today!
Abstracts are due TODAY–last chance to submit a proposal! HIV is Not a Crime IV, the fourth national training academy to educate and train 300 people living with HIV (PLHIV), stakeholders and policy leaders to mobilize state-level advocacy to end HIV-related criminalization, will be held May 30 – June 2, 2020, at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.
There will be four tracks, focusing on: 1) Effective & Accountable Leadership, 2) Rights, Policy and Justice, 3) Campaign Planning, Strategy and Messaging and 4) Core Curriculum.
Abstract submissions are due TODAY, January 17, 2020 by 5:00 pm CST (6:00 pm EST, 3:00 PST). You will receive notice of acceptance on Friday, February 28, 2020.
| Submit your proposal here |
Webinars You Won’t Want to Miss
Policy 101: Universal Health Care
Tues., Jan. 28 at 5pm EST/ 4pm CST/ 3pm MST/ 2pm PST
Primary elections are just around the corner and health care is on many voters’ minds. It’s a key issue in the Democratic debates. All of the presidential candidates are talking about it.
Everyone deserves it. But not everyone has it!
Health care is a human right, and when you’re living with HIV, it’s even more important to have high-quality, non-stigmatizing, affordable health care and services. Unfortunately, our current health care system is complicated–with regulations and laws that limit who has access to health care and the quality of care they receive.
What do the candidates’ visions of health care for all look like? What would it mean for us?
Join PWN for a webinar Tuesday, January 28 at 5pm EST/2pm PST to break it down.
| Register here |
PWNCares Sister Circle: Romance after Diagnosis
Fri., Feb. 14 at 2pm EST/ 1pm CST/ 12pm MST/ 11 am PST
| Register here! |
We Love Positive Women!
Receive a Handmade Card for Valentine’s Day
Visual AIDS, Fire Island Artist Residency, Positive Women’s Network — USA, The Well Project, and Dieu Donne are all collaborating to do something special for women living with HIV on the occasion of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2020.
Are you a woman living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day for LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN?
To receive a handmade valentine’s card, please email your name and mailing address to [email protected] by January 31, 2020.
Cards will be mailed out at the beginning of February so that they arrive by Valentine’s Day, February 14. (International mailings may arrive in the second half of the month.) Respecting the privacy of receipts, envelopes will bear the recipient’s address without additional information.
Please note that the valentines are for women living with HIV only. Thank you for respecting this.