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.by: Katie WillinghamApril 4, 2022Elation was the first thing I felt when I saw my first face, [...]
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 [...]
Our hearts are so full!PWN’s second annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) Day was a resounding success with 100 attendees on Zoom and nearly 1,000 post engagements on Facebook Live. With broad support from the HIV [...]
On this important annual opportunity to commit to addressing the HIV epidemic among women and girls, we uplift Frances Ashe-Goins, a founder of NWGHAAD and one of PWN’s 20 Black women Movement Mothers, a part of our 2022 Celebrate and Honor Black [...]
In the United States, and especially in the South, Black and brown people make up the majority of new HIV diagnoses. Black women and women of color carry the burden of HIV diagnoses in America - a country with a [...]
Black women have always been the backbone of the HIV movement, fighting battles on multiple fronts despite being underpaid, systemically undervalued, and invisiblized. It is long past time for Black women to be given their flowers for all they’ve done. This [...]
“Love as ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’ Love is as love does. Love is an act of will–namely, both an intention and an action. There can be no [...]
As we approach another National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) today, we are forced to once again acknowledge the persistent disparities in care, prevention, and treatment for Black people living with or are at risk of HIV. For us, however, [...]
Positive Women’s Network - USA launched the R.I.S.E. (Resist, Inspire, Sustain Through Education) Gender Justice Training Academy in 2019. Over two years we paid, trained, prepared, and coached 13 transgender women of color living with HIV, most from the southern [...]
PWN's January 2022 Organizing spotlight is with our partner organization, The Well Project (TWP)! TWP is a non-profit organization whose mission is to change the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic through a unique and comprehensive focus on women and girls. [...]
Welcome to 2022, family! We’re starting this year off with so much momentum from your support of our work in 2021. In what feels like an annual tradition, our communities and our work were tested last year. But faced with a [...]
The Counter Narrative Project This month’s organizing spotlight is on the Counter Narrative Project (CNP)! Founded in 2014 to amplify the voices of Black gay men, CNP works at the intersection of narrative and social justice. PWN is proud [...]
For immediate releaseDecember 1, 2021For media inquiries contact media@pwn-usa.org or 626-274-5793This World AIDS Day follows another year of struggle, grief and loss in our community. In 2021 alone, Positive Women’s Network-USA lost two of our founding members – Loren Jones [...]
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, [...]
Hey, fam! PWN had some incredibly long weeks organizing our members and allies to show up and move folks to get out the vote on election day, November 2nd. Now that we’ve rested a bit, we want to share the [...]
For immediate release:: Molecular HIV Surveillance “a perfect storm” in the context of HIV-related criminalisationOctober 20, 2021A new briefing paper published today by Positive Women’s Network USA on behalf of the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition aims to support people living [...]
The Health Not Prisons Collective (HNP) is excited to launch the 2022 Advocate Funding Project. HNP is a group of 5 national organizations, The Counter Narrative Project, Transgender Law Center, US People Living with HIV Caucus, Positive Women’s Network--USA, and [...]
September 8, 2021: Another hurricane has hit the Gulf Coast region, and we know that a number of members and allies of Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN) are suffering the consequences: lengthy power outages, lost food and medications, property [...]
September 7, 2021: Black leaders from nine HIV organizations across the U.S., including PWN, held a virtual, private meeting August 25 with artist Jonathan “DaBaby” Kirk to discuss HIV facts and share personal stories of living and thriving with HIV.The [...]
September 3, 2021: This week, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is now stacked with six reactionary justices after the Trump administration installed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, effectively gutted Roe v. Wade when a five-to-four majority--including all [...]
August 20, 2021 — Today, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) commemorates the annual Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD). Launched by the Southern AIDS Coalition in 2019, SHAAD is a day set aside for individuals all over the nation to [...]
August 18, 2021Dear PWN family,We understand and recognize how covid-19 continues to impact and disrupt our lives and our communities. As new information and guidance is released on covid-19 and vaccines, PWN will be here to break it down for [...]
July 29, 2021: Missouri recently modernized the state's HIV exposure laws--an effort that took over 10 years on the part of local advocates, legislators and other stakeholders. PWN Board Co-Chair LaTrischa Miles began her organizing efforts to reform Missouri's HIV [...]
Join PWN’s regional chapters and state leads to meet the women and trans folks living with HIV leading the way in their communitiesJuly 23, 2021: Everyone in the HIV community knows that the women and trans folks of Positive Women’s [...]
July 14, 2021: For some of us, the last time we were together in person was at PWN’s 2019 Organizing for Power Bootcamp. We gathered together to learn about electoral organizing, to perfect our voter engagement and grassroots organizing skills, [...]
40 years into the HIV epidemic, networks of people living with HIV demand a response that uplifts dignity, human rights, and wellness The policy agenda, written collaboratively by member networks of the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus, details concrete recommendations [...]
June 30, 2021: What do you do when you know the laws target a specific group of people? How do you amplify the concerns of the people who are impacted by those laws? What if you are a part of [...]
June 23, 2021: PWN is deeply saddened by the passing of our brilliant, well-respected, and loved founding member Loren Jones earlier this month. Loren was a long-standing member of PWN’s board of directors, a pioneer in HIV advocacy, a prison [...]
June 18, 2021: In 1619, the first 350 kidnapped Africans were shackled and shipped to what is today known as the United States of America. Black people had been free. Now they were enslaved by a vicious system built on [...]
June 16, 2021: People living with HIV and other conditions who know first-hand what it feels like to be denied insurance coverage due to preexisting conditions, as well as the millions of people who gained coverage through Medicaid expansion, can [...]
Many HIV activists have expressed concern about molecular HIV surveillance (MHS), a practice that utilizes and shares data from people living with HIV without our consent. In June 2020, the AIDS United Public Policy Committee adopted this position statement calling [...]
June 8, 2021Global activists from Positive Women's Network - USA, Sero Project, MPact, U.S. People living with HIV Caucus, HIV Racial Justice Now!, Desiree Alliance, International Community of Women Living with Women-North America, Global Network of People living with HIV/North [...]
June 2, 2021Are you a person living with HIV who wants to improve the quality of life for other people living with HIV? Do you want to get involved with like-minded advocates and networks of people living with HIV? Do [...]
People living with HIV know that one step in leading a healthy life is having access to life-saving medication. What do you do when access to those medications is taken away from the people who most need them? If you [...]
April 22, 2021: We mourn, we rage, we rest, we soldier on.This week, a jury returned a guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was executed in broad daylight by police. Former cop Derek [...]
April 2, 2021: With Governor Ralph Northam's signature on the dotted line as of March 31, it's official: Virginia's HIV criminalization laws have been modernized and dramatically rolled back. The culmination of over two years of organizing and advocacy led by [...]
March 31, 2021Dear PWN community,Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and building a world where it’s safe for transgender and gender non-conforming people to live their truth has never been more important. None of us are free until [...]
In March 2021, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held a hearing requesting stakeholders provide public comment answering two questions:What are the most meaningful actions that can be taken to implement the HIV National Strategy Plan and improve implementation [...]
It's Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day! March 12, 2021 The day we've been counting down to since last fall is finally here: PWN's first annual Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day. [...]
March 8, 2021Greetings, PWN members and community,We are writing to you today with big news. Nearly thirteen years into the existence of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), we have transitioned to a co-directorship model. Venita Ray and Naina Khanna [...]
PWN is thrilled to host the first-ever Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day this March 12, 2021! There is still time to sign on to the pledge to commit to celebrating and honoring Black women in [...]
February 26, 2021: The disaster that has unfolded across the South and particularly in Texas over the past couple of weeks is anything but natural. It’s a catastrophe of manmade proportions—the perfect storm of climate crisis, structural racism, unchecked capitalism, [...]
Like you, we have been horrified by the devastation wrought by the winter storm in Texas and the Gulf region, and the failure of Texas political leadership to respond. We are not confused about the root causes here - climate [...]
Deadline Extension: Sunday, 2/21! Apply for the PWN Policy Fellowship Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is still accepting applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans [...]
February 8, 2021: Folks, we have a new president--and with that, we have a whole lot of new executive orders. If you got a little lost in the flurry of papers coming out of the White House, you are not [...]
The new Southern Women Advocacy Response Mobilization (SWARM) will be an ongoing space for HIV advocates in the South to discuss emerging issues, hear from expert speakers, and get training to maximize their advocacy February 12, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – [...]
PWN is proud of the role our leaders have played in this important step in ending injustice and stigma for people living with HIV in Virginia PWN VA State Lead Deirdre Johnson testifies before the VA Senate Judiciary Committee February [...]
February 5, 2021: As another National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day rolls around this Sunday, February 7, our inboxes will be inundated with well-meaning emails from HIV organizations and agencies highlighting, again, the racial disparities in HIV acquisition and health outcomes. [...]
January 29, 2021: When you could have been doing anything else after a very, stressful election, you chose to take up the mantle and continue to educate, engage, and mobilize voters in Georgia. Alongside our partners from Women Engaged in [...]
January 22, 2021: Are you a Black woman or person of trans experience living with HIV or involved in the HIV community? Get your creative juices flowing and enter an original piece of artwork for PWN’s inaugural Celebrate & Honor [...]
