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Positive Women’s Newsletter – January 2026

2026-02-04T16:59:44-05:00February 4th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!  The Fight Against Devastating Florida ADAP Changes What’s going on in Florida? The Florida AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which provides people with low income who [...]

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#HIVResists: January 2026 Monthly Policy Update

2026-02-26T13:29:32-05:00February 2nd, 2026|Uncategorized|

Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks. 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥FLORIDA IS A TEST CASE:  PROTECT ACCESS TO HIV MEDICATION & CARE The Florida [...]

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Escalation of State Violence and Murder by Immigration Enforcement

2026-02-02T16:05:13-05:00January 28th, 2026|Uncategorized|

*Content warning for discussion of state violence and murder and racial profiling.*As Co-Executive Directors of Positive Women’s Network–USA (PWN-USA), an organization rooted in the dignity, safety, and rights of all people, especially those living with HIV and other marginalized communities, [...]

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“This Is Only A Test of The Emergency Shut you Down System” by Stacy J. Senghor

2025-12-19T17:37:51-05:00December 19th, 2025|Uncategorized|

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.PWN-USA member Stacy J. Senghor has a message for the President on this World AIDS Day!Watch the [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – December 2025

2025-12-19T11:49:23-05:00December 11th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Giving Tuesday & End-of-Year CampaignBecause Every Woman Deserves Power launched strongly this Giving Tuesday. Our Wellness Is Political livestream reached new audiences across Facebook and Zoom — with 41% [...]

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People Living with HIV Have Voting Power and PWN-USA Will Use It

2025-12-15T13:54:30-05:00December 10th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Positive Women’s Network-USA held another successful voter engagement campaign season that saw our local power grow exponentially. We are living in a moment that calls for real, meaningful relationships with our friends, families, neighbors, and communities. Connection is how we build [...]

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#HIVResists: November Monthly Policy Update

2025-12-09T13:38:17-05:00December 9th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks.🔥 Hot Topic 🔥Housing at Risk: The Trump regime proposed to drastically cut long-term housing funding for unhoused people The Trump [...]

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They Can’t Erase Us. Trans Day of Remembrance 2025

2025-11-20T13:45:43-05:00November 20th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Trans Day of Remembrance November 20, 2025 marks the 26th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where communities can come together to remember those of the trans and gender diverse community whose lives have been lost in the last [...]

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#HIVResists October 2025 Monthly Policy Update

2025-12-04T12:47:05-05:00November 3rd, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folks.Hot Topic: Time is Ticking, and [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – October 2025

2025-10-30T14:27:03-04:00October 28th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today! ✊🏾 2025 National Day of Action ✊🏾 This National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA [...]

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Trump’s New Executive Order Will Blow Back on PLHIV

2025-10-09T14:40:11-04:00October 9th, 2025|Uncategorized|

By: Elena FergusonThis week, the Trump regime began deploying the national guard to Chicago and threatened the arrest of the Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois. This comes in light of ramped-up violent immigration enforcement (ICE) operations that have [...]

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National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV 2025

2025-10-30T11:47:28-04:00October 1st, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Sign up for email from PWN here!   Today, on the National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA affirms: HIV is a [...]

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#HIVResists September 2025 Monthly Policy Update

2025-11-03T12:49:16-05:00September 29th, 2025|Uncategorized|

#HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ [...]

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“My 2025 AIDSWatch Story” by Brooke Davidoff

2025-09-30T15:16:41-04:00August 14th, 2025|Uncategorized|

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.“Preserving our Health and PrEParing for our Future.” AIDS Watch 2025 was from March 31 – April [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – July 2025

2025-11-20T13:28:01-05:00August 4th, 2025|Uncategorized|

This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   🤓 Apply Now to Be Our Development Specialist! 🤓 PWN-USA is excited to announce that we are [...]

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Urgent: Act to Save Medicaid Now!

2025-06-25T15:57:23-04:00June 24th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!   Action Alert!! 📣 Call your Senators today! Hi PWN Family, Time-sensitive update: Congress is gearing up to slash nearly $1 trillion from life-saving programs our [...]

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We Protect Us: PWN Launches #HIVResists and Mutual Aid for Our People

2025-06-17T16:52:18-04:00June 19th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!   Watch the Video Statement Here This Juneteenth, we’re not just commemorating freedom, we are calling out the sanitized celebrations and the performative allyship that too [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – June 2025

2025-06-18T11:12:06-04:00June 17th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!   🔥 Launching Our 2025-2026 Policy Fellowship! 🔥 The PWN Policy Fellowship, now in its 7th year, is a year–long program designed to support cis & [...]

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When Searching for Help Becomes a Full-Time Job

2025-06-13T15:39:28-04:00June 13th, 2025|Uncategorized|

by Angela Hawkins 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.June 13, 2025These days, my “job” is calling social service agencies for help with [...]

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June 2025 Shero of the Month: Porchia Dees

2025-06-10T11:31:34-04:00June 10th, 2025|Uncategorized|

We had the opportunity to catch up with our June Shero, Porchia Dees. Check out our interview with the PWN California State Lead!Porchia Dees is a part of the first generation of children who were born HIV positive, diagnosed in [...]

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The Current Dangers of MHS in a Trump Administration, by Brooke Davidoff

2025-04-30T19:32:31-04:00April 30th, 2025|Uncategorized|

The Current Dangers of MHS in a Trump AdministrationBrooke Davidoff, PWN Kansas City State LeadAs we internally freak out about friends, family, and neighbors being deported and quickly becoming victims of Trump’s racist regime’s illegal policies. I’m sure some of [...]

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HIV Modernization Bill to be Introduced on the Missouri Senate Floor, by Kneeshe Parkinson

2025-04-30T19:27:33-04:00April 30th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Proposal – HIV Modernization Bill to be introduced on the Missouri Senate Floorby Kneeshe Parkinson, Missouri State LeadJanuary 22, 2025 – Jefferson City, MissouriInvitation of Promo Missouri -Katy Erker-Lynch Executive DirectorDrive time: 2 hoursLength of visit: all dayOn Wednesday 1/22/25 [...]

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Stand Up by Leah Freeman

2025-04-30T19:10:51-04:00April 30th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Stand UpI'm standing up today.I’m standing up I’m standing up because I know too much I’m standing up today because I can I’m standing up for my black beautiful sisters who look like me I’m standing for my Black, beautiful sisters, For every voice [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – April 2025

2025-05-01T12:00:44-04:00April 28th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want more content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   🤠 PWN State Leads Takeover! 🤠 PWN-USA is excited to share some of the powerful projects developed by PWN's State Leads as part of [...]

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Announcement of Leadership Transition at PWN-USA

2025-04-11T18:06:49-04:00April 11th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   Dear supporters, partners, and friends of Positive Women’s Network-USA, We want to share that there has been a recent transition within the leadership [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – March 2025

2025-03-28T16:11:36-04:00March 27th, 2025|Uncategorized|

This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   📢 PWN-Colorado Rocks Advocacy Day! 📢 Our PWN-Colorado chapter along with other state partners hosted our 8th [...]

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POLICY ACTION NEWS: Tell the Senate to hold the line! No more funding cuts.

2025-03-13T20:12:29-04:00March 13th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Actions to take right now!Call your US Senators and tell them to vote NO on the House Republican continuing resolution. You can find their number and a script, HERE.Email to tell Congress to: Protect HIV Funding and oppose a long [...]

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#HIVResists February 2025 Monthly Policy Update

2025-12-04T12:48:43-05:00March 5th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥 Hot Topic: Cuts [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – February 2025

2025-02-25T19:11:03-05:00February 25th, 2025|Uncategorized|

This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   💐 Honoring Our Movement Mothers This Black History Month! 💐 In honor of Black History Month and [...]

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February 2025 Shero of the Month: Stephanie Knupsky

2025-02-25T11:30:21-05:00February 25th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Congratulations to February 2025 Shero of the Month: Stephanie Knupsky of Pennsylvania!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by January’s Shero, Ruby Garner of New York. Artist, activist, and accomplice, Stephanie is a member of Positive Women's Network Pennsylvania chapter. She [...]

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#HIVResists January Monthly Policy Update

2025-02-11T12:49:28-05:00February 11th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥 Hot Topic: Shifts [...]

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Apply to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow to change systems and build power in our communities!

2025-02-10T16:35:37-05:00February 10th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Want emails like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   Apply to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow today!  Positive Women’s Network-USA is excited to open applications for the Year 7 of the Policy Fellowship [...]

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In Loving Memory of Sharon DeCuir

2025-02-03T17:32:24-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Uncategorized|

Sharon DeCuir, PWN leader and reproductive justice champion for all women living with HIV in Louisiana, has joined the ancestorsIt is with profound sadness that we remember and honor our esteemed colleague and friend, Sharon DeCuir. Sharon was a fierce [...]

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The Federal Funding Freeze: Paused For Now, What Else Do You Need to Know?

2025-01-29T11:06:46-05:00January 29th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Hi everyone, We’re sure you all are watching the Trump administration’s latest authoritarian power-grab: temporarily ordering a freeze on federal grants and loan programs. This is part of the larger far-right strategy of pushing the poor and working class, especially QTBIPOC, deeper into crisis while [...]

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