**Media Advisory for Orangeburg, SC, Monday 12/3**Contact: Pat Kelly, 803-747-6046World AIDS Day will be observed on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, at Orangeburg Town Square with a candlelight vigil to begin at 6pm with a program “Living Beyond Your Status” to [...]
Sanctuary (n): a place of refuge and protectionNovember 30, 2018: The AIDS legacy is built on creating sanctuary. When a mysterious epidemic that researchers did not yet understand and politicians did not yet dare name aloud claimed the lives of [...]
November 27, 2018: PWN-USA members and staff will be at the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in beautiful Los Angeles, California, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations if you [...]
November 21, 2018: Positive Women’s Network – USA is a national membership body of self identified women living with HIV (WLHIV), which we define as including women, people of trans experience, non-binary and gender nonconforming people living with HIV who choose [...]
Positive Women's Network - USA Recommits to Trans Rights, Safety, and Justice on Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience November 20, 2018: Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien. Viccky Gutierrez. Zakaria Fry. Celine Walker. Tonya Harvey. Phylicia Mitchell. Amia Tyrae Berryman. Sasha Wall. [...]
November 9, 2018: Led by women living with HIV, Positive Women’s Network - USA chapters turned up this election cycle! An estimated 114 million people voted in this election--up from 83 million in the 2014 midterm--including more young people and women. [...]
October 30, 2018: Today we heard some shocking news. Trump announced plans to issue an executive order that would purport to revoke the right to citizenship for children born on US soil to non-US citizens, often called “birthright citizenship,” in [...]
October 26, 2018Greetings everyone, Check out this helpful update and analysis from PWN’s Anand Kalra. I know there is a lot of confusion about exactly what this "Trump Administration Erases Trans People" thing is. This is my breakdown of what [...]
Dear PWN Community,Today, October 23, 2018, is the fifth National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. This year’s Day of Action falls at a time when a crucial part of our community—people of trans experience—are [...]
Applications are now closed. Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) is offering a scholarship to increase participation by women and people of trans experience living with HIV, with a focus on survivors of violence in all forms, in the 2018 Biomedical HIV [...]
Dear PWN Community, October 23rd is the fifth National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. We hope you will join us in taking a stand. Endorse the Day of Action Positive Women’s Network – USA [...]
September 28, 2018: Last weekend, in its latest attack on the most vulnerable Americans, the Trump administration announced a proposal that, if implemented, would intimidate and seek to punish immigrants for accessing--or even being perceived as potentially needing--nutrition, housing, and medical [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174The fifth video in the #PWNCares series will premiere Monday, Oct. 8, in a live “virtual coffee table” video chat with the 5 women interviewed in it. It will come with a discussion guide [...]
August 29, 2018: PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in beautiful Orlando, Florida, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations. Whether you are at USCA or [...]
**For Immediate Release** Contact: Arpita Appannagari, CHLP, (212) 430-6733 HIV Criminal Law Reform: A Call to Action Racial Justice, Criminal Justice and HIV Organizations Call for an HIV Criminal Law Reform Movement Grounded in Principles of [...]
Contact: Naina Khanna, naina.khanna.work@gmail.com, 510.681.1169A renowned HIV advocate, attorney and former member of PWN-USA’s Board of Directors, Venita brings her passion and expertise in policy, racial justice and equity to the nation’s premier advocacy organization for women living with HIVOakland, [...]
Take the pledge! No #AIDS2020 in Trump's USA! #AIDS2020ForAll AIDS2020ForAll.org Sign on and let IAS know that if all are not welcome, then none of us are. We must stand with those of us living with and impacted by [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contacts: JD Davids, jdavids13(at)gmail.com, +1.646.431.7525Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, +1.347.553.5174Cecilia Chung, cecilia(at)transgenderlawcenter.org, +1.415.902.0216George Ayala, gayala(at)mpactglobal.org, +1.213.268.1777 Activists’ Call to Move AIDS 2020 Out of United States Gains SteamFrom the podium to the street, researchers, health care providers, sex workers and others call for action; #AIDS2020ForAll offers [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Cecilia Chung +1.415.902.0216, cecilia@transgenderlawcenter.org Naina Khanna +1.510.681.1169, nkhanna@pwn-usa.org George Ayala +1.213.268.1777, gayala@mpactglobal.orgBAY AREA, U.S. AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND 2020 INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE BE REMOVED FROM U.S. They cite danger for potential participants and human rights violations in the U.S. [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA RELEASES POLICY AGENDA UPDATED TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2018 AND BEYONDThe updated policy agenda, over a year in the making, is responsive to the current political [...]
July 17, 2018: Members and staff at Positive Women’s Network - USA are excited and humbled to be representing U.S. women living with HIV at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam all week. Either in Amsterdam or from home, you [...]
July 14, 2018: What does immigration have to do with women living with HIV? According to PWN-USA Texas members—everything.Tana Pradia and Jessi Mona Cartwright-Biggs hopped on a bus to Brownsville, Texas, June 28 to protest the administration’s immigration policy of [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA FOCUSES ON THE CHALLENGES FACING NEWLY DIAGNOSED TRANS WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV IN THE 4TH VIDEO IN THE #PWNCARES SERIES The video will be premiered during a virtual coffee table chat [...]
June 19, 2018: The long-anticipated HIV Is Not a Crime III Training Academy, organized by the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network – USA, took place June 3-6 at IUPUI in Indianapolis. What a remarkable three days it was!Anchored by [...]
June 5, 2018: Positive Women's Network - USA celebrates and honors the lived experience and wisdom of long-term survivors. June 5 is widely recognized as HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (#HLTSAD2018). We recognize that long-term survivors include those born with HIV and those [...]
May 31, 2018: As an organization that advocates for the safety and dignity of women and people of transgender experience living with HIV, many of whom are subject to violence and criminalization because of their marginalized identities, Positive Women’s Network - [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Ken Pinkela, ken.pinkela(at)seroproject.com, or Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.orgHIV Is Not a Crime III Training Academy’s Program Paves the Path for Getting to Zero Prosecutions The just-released program includes six plenaries and 25 breakout sessions from nearly 80 presenters, majority [...]
Trump Administration’s Domestic Gag Rule Would Take Away Our Right to Choose--and Our Health CareMay 21, 2018: Positive Women’s Network - USA strongly condemns the Trump-Pence administration’s latest attack on sexual and reproductive health, rights and bodily autonomy of low-income people, [...]
This statement is also available in Spanish. A call to marshal our full resources, voice and political power in support of immigrants targeted by hateful policies and dangerous, dehumanizing rhetoric. Borders are imaginary political lines drawn to consolidate power and resources. [...]
In 2017, as part of our mission to prepare and involve women living with HIV in all levels of advocacy and decision making tables that impact their lives, we launched a yearlong federal policy training fellowship program for people who [...]
Click to watch Mark S. King's amazing video of the Summit! Have you heard? Positive Women’s Network-USA just celebrated our 10 year anniversary! True to form, we honored ten years of fierce leadership by and for women living with [...]
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 12** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 SPEAK UP! 2018, THE ONLY NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT BY AND FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV, KICKS OFF IN ONE WEEK Nearly 350 women living with HIV and allies will convene in Myrtle [...]
March 10, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, PWN-USA members were busy educating, informing and promoting awareness about HIV in their communities throughout the U.S. Members organized and presented at in-person events, participated in Twitter chats, webinars, interviews, wrote [...]
March 14, 2018 -- When it comes to the widely misunderstood, complex issue of HIV criminalization, media can be a powerful tool--or a blunt-force weapon. And so today, as people around the world living with HIV continue to be criminalized [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 13, 2018 Contact:Cecilia Chung, San Francisco, CA 415.902.0216 | cecilia.chung@me.comLarry Walker, Atlanta GA 443.703.6082 | larry@thrives.comNaina Khanna, Oakland, CA 510.681.1169 | nkhanna@pwn-usa.orgAndrew Spieldenner, San Diego, CA 323.620.3432 | aspieldenner@gmail.comOver 50 organizations stand in strong opposition to holding the [...]
March 9, 2018: National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day marks an annual moment to pause, reflect and make new commitments to advance human rights, dignity and justice for all women and girls living with and vulnerable to HIV. Today’s [...]
The third installment in the #PWNCares interactive multimedia series will be released March 8 in time for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and will be accompanied by a live virtual coffee table chat with the four women featured [...]
photo credit: Johnnie Kornegay Leer en español aquí**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Leaders of Color in the HIV Movement Form A Strategic Working Group To Advance the Movement Towards Racial JusticeCONTACT: Naina Khanna, (510) 681-1169, nkhanna@pwn-usa.org orCharles Stephens, (404) 550-4697, charles.stephens@counternarrative.orgFebruary 21, 2018: In July 2017, [...]
by Arneta Rogers, Policy Director, Positive Women’s Network - USAFebruary 7, 2018: Today marks the second National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day we have observed under the most openly racist administration in decades. The legacy of slavery, violence against and systemic [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Ken Pinkela, ken.pinkela@seroproject.com or Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org February 5, 2018: SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network - USA are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 HIV is Not a Crime III National [...]
You spoke; we listened!As part of our effort to keep participation in SPEAK UP! 2018 as affordable as possible for as many women and people of trans experience as possible, we are extending our early-bird registration discount through Friday, Feb. 9!If you are a woman [...]
January 30, 2018:“The Summit was so powerful! The organizers of the summit worked to make it a space welcoming for those of differing levels of comfort with their HIV status, familiarity with advocacy and participation in a large group setting.”“The PWN Summit lived [...]
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**COALITION TO MODERNIZE SOUTH CAROLINA’S HIV LAWS TO CONVENE FEB. 1The new coalition will work toward the goal of making South Carolina the first Southern state to change its discriminatory HIV criminalization lawsThe South Carolina chapter of Positive [...]
If you are a woman or person of trans experience living with HIV, you don't want to miss SPEAK UP! 2018, the ONLY national leadership summit by and for women living with HIV. And you only have a week left to take [...]
POSITIVE WOMEN’S NETWORK – USA CONDEMNS THE CREATION OF NEW HHS DIVISION WHICH WILL LEGALIZE DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGSYesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is creating a new division—“Conscience and Religious Freedom”—within its [...]
January 12, 2018: Positive Women's Network - USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for the second year of our Policy Fellowship for women and folks of trans experience living with HIV (WLHIV).The goal of the yearlong Fellowship is to increase [...]
Updated January 8, 2018: The HIV Is Not a Crime Training Academy unites and trains advocates living with HIV and allies from across the country on laws criminalizing people living with and vulnerable to HIV and on strategies and best practices [...]
December 15, 2017: PWN-USA is excited to announce the launch of two new resources for 2018 as part of our continued efforts to reform HIV criminalization laws nationwide and to support people living with HIV targeted by those laws.The first resource [...]
Thirty-five years ago, the United States was just beginning to understand that the mysterious illness killing hundreds of mostly gay men, but also some hemophiliacs, women and infants. Before the end of the decade, the death rate would spike to [...]
TDOR artwork courtesy of Forward Together. Visit their page for more artwork and writing by trans artists!Today, November 20, is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR as it is commonly called. The transgender community, especially transgender women of [...]
