PWN-USA Announces New Board Members

Positive Women’s Network – USA is thrilled to announce the addition of six new and absolutely fierce women to our Board of Directors. We are proud that our board of directors consists entirely of women living with HIV representing the diverse communities most impacted by the epidemic.

Upcoming Webinars You Won’t Want to Miss

Without Our Consent: Centering People Living with HIV in HIV Genetic Sequencing (Part 1)

Wed., March 27, 2019 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT

Hosted by The Legacy Project, Positive Women’s Network-USA and the US People Living with HIV Caucus, this first webinar in the series will focus on HIV genetic sequencing (HGS) from the perspectives of people living with HIV. While HGS is a powerful research and public health tool for treatment and cure research, it also raises some critical ethical concerns, in particular, how certain parts of the HIV community are more heavily policed. In this webinar, we invite community leaders to discuss policing and law enforcement on African Americans, Latinx folks, sex workers, people of trans experience, and in the HIV space, and how HGS could have potential impacts on these communities.

PWNCares: Be Your Own Best Advocate

Tues., April 9, 2019 at 1pm EDT/10am PDT

Join panelists Tranisha Arzah, Keiva Lei Cadena, Alicia Diggs, and Kamaria Laffrey for the launch of our 7th video in the PWNCares series by and for women living with HIV and a virtual coffee table discussion on what it means to advocate for yourself in health care and service provider settings to make sure you are getting the care and services you need and deserve!

Bodily Integrity and Personal Autonomy: Working for Transgender Liberation and Reproductive Justice

Tues., April 9, 2019 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT

In this webinar presented by AIDS United, panelists from the National Center for Transgender Equality, Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health, and SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW! will explore why the transgender liberation and reproductive justice movements should work together, how this collaboration is related to our work around HIV and racial justice, and best practices for cross-movement work. This webinar is intended for individuals and organizations in each of these struggles that want to work better together.

Advancing Economic Justice for People Living with HIV

Thurs., April 11, 2019 at 3pm EDT/ 12pm PDT

Economic justice includes so much more than equal pay for equal work. Economic insecurity can create vulnerability to acquiring HIV and an HIV diagnosis can lead to a lifetime of poverty thanks to harmful policies in the U.S. It’s a vicious cycle. Join us to learn more about the policies that impact our economic security and preparation to participate in the workforce in ways that we choose, and how you can help organize to advance economic justice in your community!

TransLatin@ Coalition Presents #TransPolicyAgenda

PWN-USA is thrilled to share an exciting new policy agenda produced by our friends at TransLatin@ Coalition, the #TransPolicyAgenda, created by people of trans experience for all advocates who want to help support transgender and gender non-conforming people get to a better place in our society.

This policy agenda will be used not only to work toward securing the legislative rights for our community and to hold the state accountable, but to demand moral integrity from society as a whole.

Read and download the #TransPolicyAgenda here!

March 15, 2019