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 [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA sent the following letter to the Biden-Harris administration.Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) is the only national organization truly led by and for women living with HIV (WLHIV), inclusive of women of transgender experience. Our mission is [...]
January 20, 2021: Today, we have a new president and vice president. While the enormous challenges their administration faces will not be resolved overnight, President Biden can begin to undo some of the grievous damage done to our nation and [...]
January 15, 2021: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is thrilled to launch applications for the fifth year of our PWN Policy Fellowship, a year-long program designed to prepare and support women and trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people to [...]
January 8, 2021: Wednesday’s white supremacist failed coup in the U.S. Capitol was horrifying, scary, unprecedented – yet not unpredictable.The attack was not on a building. This was an attack on our people. The message of these insurrectionists, including those [...]
December 17, 2020: On December 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services released the draft HIV National Strategic Plan 2021-2025. Comments were due Monday, December 14. In collaboration with many of our partners, including the networks of people [...]
December 1, 2020: This World AIDS Day, we honor Black women in the HIV movement.Black women have been at the forefront of the HIV response since the earliest days of the domestic epidemic. Black women have marched, led, care-taken, stood [...]
Art by Glori Tuitt + @fwdtogether We Read Their NamesWe read the names of precious lives lostTo open our eyes to the enormous costOf bigotry, religion, ignorance, and hate,And honor those who too soon met their fate.Sisters [...]
November 9, 2020: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on their election by a decisive majority of total votes cast and electoral college votes in the highest turnout election in U.S. [...]
November 6, 2020: We've got a lot of feelings right now.Our spirits are bruised, our anxiety high. We bear the scars of generations of trauma, the legacy of white supremacy and patriarchy. They drive us to continue to fight for [...]
November 4, 2020Hey PWN family, You came through! In a year of a new pandemic; of a brutal backlash to uprisings for racial justice; and in the face of so many threats to our bodily autonomy, our families, and our [...]
November 2, 2020: Tomorrow night, the polls will close for the most significant election of our lives. Many of us have dedicated countless hours to making sure that every eligible voter in our community gets to have their voice heard. [...]
October 29, 2020: Maybe you're like the 66 million Americans who have already voted. If so... Haven't voted yet? Perhaps you've still got that mail or absentee ballot sitting on that corner of the kitchen table where your mail hangs [...]
October 22, 2020Dear Community, 2020 has been a tough year. A new pandemic. Police brutality. Fires and hurricanes. A racial justice uprising and a corresponding violent response by the state and white supremacist groups. So much loss and grief. And [...]
October 22, 2020: As many of you know, PWN has hosted a Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV on October 23 since 2014. Because our staff and members are all working hard on the November [...]
October 1, 2020: Black women deserve the world. At Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN), this is central to everything we do, from the policies we advocate for to the way we do our work. And we think it’s high [...]
September 30, 2020: With so much going on in our country today, it can be easy to forget that the most crucial election of our lifetime is only a little over a month away. Civil uprisings are continuing to happen [...]
PWN Condemns the Trump Administration's Latest Attacks on Reproductive Justice Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s newly reported campaign of terror against immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). September 18, 2020: On [...]
August 31, 2020: Shannon Robinson is one busy woman. She has been organizing around the elections in Colorado with PWN since the 2018 midterms--work she's continuing for the 2020 elections. But her organizing kicked into high gear at the end of [...]
July 27, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things in our day-to-day lives. The response to the pandemic by many elected officials in America, from state houses to the White House, has been dismal. But elections are [...]
July 1, 2020: You stand in the rain. You stand in the heat. The line is long. You are hungry and thirsty. You are frustrated. You are standing too close for comfort to someone in the midst of the COVID-19 [...]
June 30, 2020: Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down yet another attempt to limit abortion care access in the landmark case, June Medical Services v. Russo. This latest case is a part of a larger, intentional effort to prevent those [...]
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Naina Khanna, Positive Women’s Network - USA, naina(at)pwn-usa.org As Calls for Justice Echo Around the United States, National Groups Led by Most-Policed Communities Affected by HIV and COVID-19 Join in Partnership The Health Not Prisons Collective Vows to [...]
June 15, 2020: It’s time to celebrate! Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that Tile VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, also prohibits discrimination on [...]
June 5, 2020 Today marks another HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (#HLTSAD). Even as we celebrate the longevity, resilience, and incredible achievements of so many long-term survivors--many of whom never expected to live more than a few months at the [...]
*** Content warnings: anti-Black racism, violence, pain, killing of Black people by the police, lack of accountability by the State, KKK *** June 2, 2020PWN family,We love you.We have been rocked and our hearts are broken by the footage of George [...]
June 1, 2020: PWN Pennsylvania has been active in their community for years. Since 2018, they have been registering new voters, educating their community about elections and voter rights, and mobilizing the voters they've registered and engaged with to get [...]
May 10, 2020Dear PWN Family, 2020 has been quite the year so far, huh? We know that this Mother's Day may be different from last year or the year before for many of us. We may not be getting to [...]
April 30, 2020: How are you centering the voices of women of trans experience of color living with HIV? How does your organization support the leadership of folks of trans experience? What is currently underway to ensure that women of [...]
April 28, 2020: ICW, GNP+ and PWN-USA mourn the loss of all of our former Board member and community champion Deloris Dockrey, who passed due to complications with COVID-19. For anyone that knew Deloris she was a ray of light [...]
April 17, 2020: Even in the best of times, cisgender and transgender women living with HIV are disproportionately vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV): 55% report having experienced IPV in their lives, twice the rate of women more generally. In [...]
On Monday, April 13, 2020, PWN's policy team and guest panelist Jessica Pinckney from In Our Own Voice answered questions submitted by PWN members and allies about everything related to COVID-19--the disease caused by the novel coronavirus--and the [...]
April 10, 2020 The Honorable Jerrold NadlerChairmanHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515The Honorable Lindsey GrahamChairmanSenate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. SenateWashington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Jim JordanRanking MemberHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House [...]
April 1, 2020: It’s party time, people! We get to see and participate in a rare and wonderful event. Something that only happens once every ten years. Something that could help ensure your community has its fair share of political [...]
March 23, 2020: It is almost impossible to have a conversation these days without COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, creeping in. Before so many people around the world really understood the seriousness of the new disease, JD [...]
March 23, 2020 Dear PWN Family, Ten years ago today, something monumental happened. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, it meant--for the first time in this nation's history--that insurance companies could [...]
March 13, 2020Dear PWN Family,Recent weeks have been full of news—some of it confusing and contradictory—about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization this past Wednesday.We have heard that PWN members are [...]
March 10, 2020 -- In observance of today’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), ACT NOW: END AIDS (ANEA), calls on every 2020 Presidential candidate to actively include input from women and girls living with and vulnerable to [...]
February 28, 2020: A year after President Trump gave his State of the Union Address where he announced the initiative Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EtE), Black AIDS Institute (BAI) published its response to the call from [...]
The Blacker the Plan: Black AIDS Institute’s groundbreaking new report challenges HIV advocates to address anti-Blackness, invest in Black communities, end disparities in health care access, and build capacity in the Black community to respond to the epidemic. Feb. 7, 2020: [...]
The training academy, scheduled for May 30 – June 2 in Columbus, OH, will inspire and build the advocacy skills of hundreds of HIV advocates“As a survivor of HIV criminalization, seeing so many people from all across the world wanting [...]
The new Medicaid “block grant” option will lower quality of and access to care for the most vulnerableJanuary 30, 2020: Whether it’s routine like strep throat or scary like cancer, illness reminds us that at our core, we’re all human. [...]
January 29, 2020: Imagine being a woman living with HIV, truly apprehensive or extremely cautious when it comes to sexual intimacy. After all, you've been hearing for years that you have to use condoms every single time. Imagine the spark [...]
January 16, 2020: “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 [...]
January 13, 2020: 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 [...]
December 17, 2019: All work has dignity, and every human being has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) unequivocally supports sex workers and their right to bodily autonomy. Our advocacy is grounded in human rights and social justice, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the third graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2019-2020 Fellows successfully completed a 9-month-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
