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 [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications@pwn-usa.org The program, a continuation and expansion of the popular #PWNCares series, will provide opportunities for service and care providers to connect women diagnosed with HIV with a supportive network. December 16, 2019: Positive Women’s Network [...]
Violence and oppression have devastating consequences for our bodies, hearts, minds, relationships and our movement. Transforming this requires a commitment from each of us. December 1, 2019: Every World AIDS Day, HIV re-emerges in the headlines, as we pay homage [...]
November 22, 2019: Women Engaged is a pioneer in the reproductive justice movement as one of the very few organizations in Atlanta, Georgia to use an integrated voter engagement model to not only increase civic engagement but to build power [...]
November 20, 2019: For 20 years, November 20 has been observed as Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day for for various communities to come together to honor the lives of transgender people that were lost to violence. PWN-USA envisions [...]
November 7, 2019: On Tuesday, a number of U.S. states held elections that may have transformed their political landscape in advance of 2020. Want to know what happened without spending the day searching the news? Positive Women’s Network - USA [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications@pwn-usa.org Positive Women’s Network Action Fund Launches 12-month Get Out The HIV Vote Plan Following a five-day intensive training on electoral organizing, leaders from 10 states leave fired up and ready to mobilize the HIV [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org Positive Women’s Network – USA Kicks Off Organizing for Power: Road to 2020 Electoral Organizing Effort with a Five-Day Intensive Bootcamp Eleven teams from ten states, all led by women and people of trans experience [...]
October 24, 2019: This is really happening! PWN-USA is going on the road to Atlanta, Georgia, for our in-person electoral organizing bootcamp starting this Sunday, October 27! Teams from 11 key geographic locations who are part of PWN’s cutting-edge new [...]
TODAY, October 23, 2019, is Positive Women's Network - USA's sixth annual Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. Sign On to Endorse the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV More [...]
October 10, 2019: A month after the 2019 U.S. Conference on AIDS, we asked some of our member spokespeople what was still on their mind from the conference.One recurring theme was the protest on stage during the plenary with CDC [...]
September 30, 2019: HIV has long been misunderstood by the legal system. There are currently laws in 33 states criminalizing people living with HIV for exposure to HIV, nondisclosure of HIV and/or transmission. PWNers in Florida understand how these draconian [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: communications(at)pwn-usa.org POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA LAUNCHES 2020 HIV VOTER ENGAGEMENT PLAN The intensive, multi-state voter engagement plan will leverage the power of people living with and affected by HIV to activate communities historically ignored by [...]
August 29, 2019: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in Washington, D.C. representing women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these conversations and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or at home, you [...]
PWN member Lisa Britt is interviewed by local news media at the Aug. 1 community meeting August 29, 2019: The federal housing program, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), was created in recognition that health outcomes for people [...]
August 12, 2019: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) unequivocally condemns the latest development in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against immigrant communities. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule seeking to further intimidate and punish some [...]
July 30, 2019: Today, we are honoring a true shero.Waheedah Shabazz-El, founding member of Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) and our first-ever organizing director, is retiring from her role with PWN to move on to the next phase in her [...]
July 30, 2019: PWN members in Alabama--or PWN Alabama Voices, as they call their group--have been busy supporting the mobilization efforts of organizations such as Alabama Arise around attacks on SNAP benefits.They are advocating against the bill recently signed into law in [...]
Para leer en español haz clic aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennifer Johnson-Avril, Housing Works 646-732-1573 J.Johnson-Avril@housingworks.orgNaina Khanna, Positive Women’s Network-USA 510-681-1169 naina@pwn-usa.orgSean Strub, Sero Project 646-642-4915 sean.strub@seroproject.comJuly 26, 2019: During a Congressional hearing on Thursday July 25, 2019, Chief Brian Hastings [...]
June 26, 2019: No matter what we are doing either individually as advocates or whether we are a member of a team or coalition, we all need support. We all need to feel included and valued even when we disagree [...]
Calling advocates and organizers for a Summer Saturdays brunch-time web-based training series sponsored by Positive Women’s Network - USA. BYOB! Register here! Organizing is a long term approach to developing power as a community. It looks beyond policy campaigns, election cycles, [...]
May 30, 2019: The staff, Board of Directors, and membership body at Positive Women's Network - USA want to express our heartfelt condolences for the sudden, unexpected loss of one of our most celebrated sisters, Mary Bowman, at only 30 [...]
May 31, 2019: We all know that young people deserve comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sexual education in school so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual health and reproductive options. Seeing that the existing 2013 law requiring comprehensive sex ed [...]
May 24, 2019: Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule reinterpreting the scope of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Section 1557 is the non-discrimination section of the ACA. It bars health [...]
State Violence Won’t End Interpersonal Violence. What Will?by Kelly Flannery, PWN If/When/How Reproductive Justice HIV Legal FellowMay 23, 2019: Over 60% of women living with HIV in the U.S. have experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. [...]
May 16, 2019: Dear PWN community,We’re furious and ready to fight. Are you with us? Yesterday, the governor of Alabama signed into law the most restrictive abortion ban in U.S. history, making abortion a crime at any stage of pregnancy. [...]
April 24, 2019: PWN Texas has been busy this legislative session! They have been leading the Texas Strike Force, a group of concerned community members ready to take action, and a rapid response team tracking both helpful and harmful legislation, [...]
PWN-USA is pleased to announce the second graduating class of our Policy Fellowship. These 2018-2019 fellows successfully completed a year-long fellowship to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and [...]
April 12, 2019: Today, the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military went into effect. The ban is reminiscent of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which was repealed in 2011, in that it allows transgender troops to [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 In “Be Your Own Best Advocate,” women living with HIV share their experiences navigating frustrating doctors’ visits, offer tips and encouragementApril 2, 2019: Engagement and retention in care are critical following an HIV diagnosis. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174The year-long, nonpartisan voter engagement and mobilization strategy will be led by women and transgender people living with HIV April 1, Washington, DC: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national network of women and people [...]
March 27, 2019: In 2015, Pat Kelly, founding member of Positive Women’s Network, held a discussion with the regional chapter of South Carolina about efforts to repeal or modernize HIV criminalization laws in other states in the U.S. That conversation [...]
March 27, 2019: This week, the Trump administration signaled that it will argue for the complete invalidation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national membership body of women and people of trans experience living with [...]
March 8, 2019: As March 10 rolls around each year, organizations stage events, issue statements, and pump out tweets for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). The day is important to observe: Nearly four decades into the epidemic, [...]
Online Join PWN-USA Membership Engagement Coordinator Evany Turk online for a special #NWGHAAD Facebook Live about why we should be talking about #Medicare4All instead of condoms for all! Find Our Members in [...]
by Kelly Flannery and Naina KhannaMarch 7, 2019: International Women’s Day has historically called attention to social, economic, and political power imbalances based on gender around the globe. March 8, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN-USA), a national advocacy organization [...]
February 27, 2019: PWN-USA Virginia State Lead Deirdre Johnson is one busy advocate. Since the HIV Is Not a Crime III National Training Academy in Indianapolis last June, she has been collaborating with fellow advocates and activists in her home [...]
Venita Ray, Deputy DirectorFebruary 07, 2019: As a Black woman living with HIV, I always approach National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) with a little bit of dread. Each year, we, hear the same numbers: “Black folks represent 12% [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174Positive Women’s Network – USA Invites Women Living with HIV to an Honest Conversation About the Ups and Downs of Dating with HIVThe latest installment in the #PWNCares multimedia series will launch Feb. 14 [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, 347.553.5174, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.orgDesigned as a comprehensive, multimedia how-to guide and toolkit, it starts with the basics while offering resources and tips for seasoned advocates. January 24, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to roll [...]
January 22, 2019: The Supreme Court of the United States has given the Trump administration the green light to discriminate against people of trans experience. Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) strongly condemns this latest assault on the rights and dignity of [...]
January 15, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for the third year of our Policy Fellowship for Women and People of Trans Experience Living with HIV. The goal of the 9-month Fellowship is to increase [...]
Joint Statement from the United States People Living with HIV Caucus and HIVenas Abiertas, Positive Women’s Network-USA, Positively Trans, Sero Project, The Reunion Project and Thrive SSContact: Devin Hursey, US People Living with HIV Caucus: devhur1@gmail.com 816.872.2051Octavia Lewis, Positively [...]
December 5, 2018: We are thrilled to announce that Arneta Rogers, PWN’s first ever Policy Director, is moving on to do (even more) great things! Although we will miss her, we are so excited about Arneta’s next steps. Arneta built [...]
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