TrumpCare 2.0 Is Dead Because of You
September 26: It’s been a long, hard few months. You deserve kudos–and a break. We thought we had killed the ACA repeal bill in the House in March, only to have it resurface in April and pass the House in [...]
We Need One More "No" Vote to Save the ACA. ALL HANDS ON DECK!
Thursday, Sept. 21 ISSUE: It’s now or never. Senate Republicans have just over a week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the devastating Graham-Cassidy proposal is gaining steam, even though it will do exactly what previous repeal bills would [...]
Disparities in Health Outcomes, Barriers to Care Are About More Than Just Access
Updated Sept. 10 September 8, United States Conference on AIDS, 2017. Washington, D.C.: Black men wait 32% longer to cross the street than white men, according to a study from Portland, Oregon. Males in their 20s, identically dressed, had very distinct [...]
PWN-USA Announces SPEAK UP! 2018; 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
**For Immediate Release** Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org, 347.553.5174 September 8, 2017: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is proud to announce that we will be celebrating our first decade of sisterhood, solidarity and action by hosting our third National Leadership [...]
Here to Stay: #DefendDACA, Protect Immigrants Today
September 5, 2017: This country was built and continues to be sustained by immigrant love and labor. But today, the current administration ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, placing nearly 900,000 young immigrants, their families and loved [...]
Do USCA with PWN-USA!
August 31, 2017: Heading to the US Conference on AIDS 2017 next week? PWN members and allies will be in full effect! Our dynamic and fierce members will be sitting on panels and leading discussions in workshops and plenaries. Check out [...]
Our Resistance Recess Toolkit Has Lots of Ideas and Resources to Take Action This August Recess!
August 8: We did it! Through people power, we killed the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act! At least for now, and just by one vote. We have lots of work ahead of us. All members of Congress are home for the August [...]
We Won.
July 28: Let it sink in. Savor it. If victory is sweet, this is a whole chocolate cake with ice cream, whipped cream and cherries on top. The efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act have died. And it’s all because [...]
White House Sanctions Anti-Trans Dehumanization and Discrimination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tiommi Luckett, Communications Assistant, Positive Women’s Network - USA 501-258-3973 | tluckett.pwnusa@gmail.com July 26, 2017, Washington, DC- Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN-USA) condemns the Trump administration’s vicious dehumanization of people who are trans and gender non [...]
UPDATE: 500+ to Occupy Offices of All GOP Senators Who Do Not Speak Up Against ACA Repeal
We haven’t won yet. Today, more than 500 constituents will OCCUPY THE OFFICES OF ALL GOP SENATORS WHO DO NOT SPEAK UP AGAINST ACA REPEAL Wherever you are, help keep up the pressure to #KillRepeal! Thanks to your unwavering efforts, [...]
500+ Constituents of All 52 Republican Senators to Occupy Capitol Hill Offices to Tell Them: "Kill the Bill, Don't Kill Us!"
Contact: Jennifer Flynn, Center for Popular Democracy, 917 517-5202 • jflynn@populardemocracy.org Paul Davis, Housing Works, 202 817 0129 • p.davis@housingworks.org **MEDIA ADVISORY FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 19** 500+ CONSTITUENTS OF ALL 52 REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO OCCUPY CAPITOL HILL OFFICES TO TELL [...]
“Kill the Bill, Don’t Kill Us!”: On Capitol Hill and at Home, PWN Members and Allies Take Action to Stop Trumpcare
July 12, 2017: This Monday, July 10, four PWN-USA members as well as a number of allies joined over 100 other constituents from 21 states in descending on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with a very clear, explicit message for their [...]
100+ Constituents Occupy D.C. Congressional Offices, Demand "Don’t Kill Us, Kill the Bill!"
Patients with pre-existing conditions and health providers from at least 21 states to occupy numerous Republican offices in acts of civil disobedience to unwelcome elected officials on their first day back from recess July 10, 2017: WASHINGTON D.C. – Constituents afraid [...]
PWNers Work to #KillTheBill from Coast to Coast
Masonia Traylor at the People’s Filibuster in Washington, DC, June 27 Members of Positive Women’s Network-USA have dedicated enormous time and energy to stop the GOP repeal of the Affordable Care Act, first through the House Republicans’ “American [...]
Your Help Is Needed Immediately to #KillTheBill.
URGENT: The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next week to decimate healthcare for people living with HIV. The result will be unnecessary death and suffering. That is why today, Thursday, June 22, we, the undersigned, are issuing this urgent [...]
PACHA Members Living with HIV Resign: “We will be more effective from the outside”
A quarter of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Resigns in Protest, Including Majority of PACHA Members Living with HIV Contact: Gina Brown: 504.458.5247; Grissel Granados: 562.965.0055; Scott Schoettes: 773.474.9250 June 16, 2017: Today, 6 of the 21 members of [...]
Celebrating 9 Years of Fierce Leadership of Women Living with HIV
Special Message from the Executive Director Dear PWN Community, This month, Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) celebrates our ninth year of fierce leadership by and for women living with HIV. As PWN-USA’s executive director and a woman living with [...]
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Your voice matters! Positive Women's Network - USA is about to embark on a strategic planning process, including updates to our policy agenda in light of the new challenges we face in today's political climate. As the premier national voice [...]
PWN-USA and SERO Project Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy in Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ken Pinkela: ken.pinkela@seroproject.com or Jennie Smith-Camejo: jsmithcamejo@pwn-usa.org May 15, 2017: Building on the amazing success of the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy last year, the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are pleased [...]
This #MothersDay, Help #FreeMichaelJohnson and Bring Him Home to His Mom
May 11, 2017: This Sunday will mark the fourth Mother’s Day that Tracy Johnson has had to spend separated from Michael, her youngest son. That’s how long he has been incarcerated under Missouri’s archaic and draconian HIV criminalization laws, following a [...]
We Love You. We Will Keep Fighting for You.
May 4, 2017 Dear PWN Community, We love you. We promise to keep fighting for, and alongside, you. Today, 217 members of the House knowingly voted to strip over 24 million people of their health care, and make insurance more [...]
All hands on deck to #ProtectOurCare!
May 3, 2017: This is not a drill, y’all. House Republicans are at it again, attempting to slash and burn health care access for millions of people in the US! In fact, they believe they have the votes lined up for [...]
This May Day, Join the HIV Community Movement for Expanded Sanctuary
A Joint Statement from Counter Narrative Project, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, Positive Women’s Network – USA, TransLatin@ Coalition, Treatment Action Group, the US People Living with HIV Caucus and Venas Abiertas Leer en español aquí you have to understand, that [...]
Stop Zombie Trumpcare!
April 27, 2017: The House Freedom Caucus has officially endorsed a revised Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, delivering a fresh burst of momentum to the GOP's efforts to revive its stalled health care effort. Read more here. This new [...]
Announcing the 2017 PWN Policy Fellows!
March 31, 2017: We are thrilled to be launching the PWN-USA Policy Fellows, an inaugural program to build the policy leadership bench for women, including women of trans experience, directly impacted by the epidemic and historically underrepresented in the [...]
PWN-USA Rocks AIDSWatch 2017!
March 31: Earlier this week, over 600 advocates from 34 states and the District of Columbia descended upon Capitol Hill for the largest AIDSWatch yet; Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) still made its mark. About 50 PWN-USA members participated in [...]
On #NWGHAAD, PWNers Assert and Celebrate #BodilyAutonomy
March 16, 2017: For National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD), PWNers from coast to coast hosted and participated in events, in person and online, raising awareness and educating our communities about HIV and its impact on women and girls and [...]
On #NWGHAAD, We Celebrate #BodilyAutonomy
March 10, 2017: Today is National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day. In honor of the approximately 300,000 women living with HIV in the United States, please join Positive Women's Network - USA in asserting and celebrating the bodily autonomy of [...]
Bodily Autonomy: A Framework to Guide Our Future
Feb. 17: In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), Positive Women's Network - USA invites you to join us in asserting and celebrating the bodily autonomy of all women and girls, including women of trans experience, living with [...]
I Am My Sisters’ and Brothers’ Keeper
An Open Letter from Positive Women’s Network – USA in Observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) February 7, 2017: From the moment the winner of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was announced, many of us of African descent have [...]
California Lawmakers Announce Bill to Modernize Discriminatory HIV Criminalization Laws
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** February 6, 2017 CONTACT: Jason Howe, Equality California PHONE: 323-848-9801 MOBILE: 415-595-9245 EMAIL: jason@eqca.org Senator Wiener and Assemblymember Gloria Announce Bill to Modernize Discriminatory HIV Criminalization Laws Equality California, Positive Women’s Network – USA, ACLU and others join in [...]
#WhyWeMarch: Toward Liberation and Justice
Art by Jennifer Maravillas January 20, 2017: Today, a thin-skinned, authoritarian narcissist who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes is being sworn into the highest office in the United States, and arguably the most powerful position [...]
PWN-USA Launches Inaugural Class of Policy Fellowship!
January 19, 2017: Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) is proud to launch applications for our inaugural 2017-2018 Policy Fellowship for women living with HIV (WLHIV). The yearlong Policy Fellowship will advance our organizational mission to prepare and involve WLHIV in all [...]
Women of PWN Dismantling Racism
December 19, 2016 To the Positive Women’s Network Sisterhood and Allies - At the 2016 PWN Speak Up Summit in Ft Walton Beach, white women living with HIV committed to study and challenge racism, within ourselves and in our communities. [...]
A Price Too High – Speak Out Now!
December 16, 2016: Last month, the president-elect announced his decision to nominate ardent opponent of women’s health and the Affordable Care Act (ACA; a.k.a. "Obamacare") Representative Tom Price (R-GA) to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [...]
Honoring the Legacy of the Obama Administration on HIV
December 1, 2016: This #WorldAIDSDay, Positive Women’s Network - USA honors President Obama’s legacy in addressing the domestic HIV epidemic. Over the past eight years, the Obama Administration has advanced essential human rights protections for people living with HIV while ensuring [...]
Trans Resilience & Resistance in Changing Times
November 18, 2016: Transgender Day of Remembrance—or Transgender Day of Resilience, to give full credit to the power, strength, creativity and determination our brothers and sisters of trans experience have shown in the face of relentless persecution—is observed November 20 of [...]
I (Still) Believe that We Will Win.
November 15, 2016: Today, we grieve. Tomorrow, we fight. Resistance in the face of terror is nothing new for our communities. Our bodies are transgressive: Black, brown, and otherwise pigmented; queer; HIV-containing; border-crossing. Our bodies and those of our ancestors have [...]
Rest in Power, Patricia Williams
November 7, 2016: Positive Women's Network - USA is devastated by the sudden loss of our sister, PWN-USA Philadelphia co-chair Patricia Williams, who passed away unexpectedly Friday, November 4. Patricia, better known to many of her friends as Pattie, is mourned by [...]
Women Around the Nation Speak Up for the Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV
October 24, 2016: With community events around the country happening from last week through the first week of November; a vibrant radio show on the theme hosted by PWN-USA Colorado member Pozitively Dee on Saturday; a Twitter chat scheduled for 2 PM ET [...]
On Third Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV, PWN-USA Demands End to Criminalization & Other Forms of Structural Violence
OCTOBER 21: Women with HIV simultaneously live with the effects of trauma resulting from interpersonal, community, and institutional violence. Studies have shown that the lifelong and compounding effects of these different forms of violence may have consequences far deadlier than the [...]
SPEAK UP! 2016 Unites, Energizes & Mobilizes New & Seasoned Advocates
Months of planning and preparation from PWN-USA's Summit Planning Committee, Board, staff and presenters paid off last month, as 250 women living with HIV from 29 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Canada came together in Fort Walton [...]
250 Women from 29 States, DC, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico & Canada SPEAK UP!
Regional Organizing Institute, Tuesday, September 27 September 28, 2016: After many months and countless hours of planning, organizing and collaborating on a common vision by our Summit Planning Committee of over 20 women living with HIV, SPEAK UP! 2016--the only [...]
PWN-USA Gets Ready to SPEAK UP!
September 19, 2016 - It's hard to believe, but we're only about a week away from SPEAK UP! 2016 National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV. We'd like to thank our dedicated Summit Planning Committee for their many hours of time [...]
PWN-USA Seeks Experienced Facilitators for Butterfly Rising Program
September 8, 2016 - We are seeking experienced facilitators and trainers in the San Francisco Bay Area who want to become certified on Butterfly Rising, a trauma-informed peer leadership development curriculum for women living with HIV, including women of trans [...]
SPEAK UP! 2016 – Registration Closed
August 2: Are YOU ready to speak up? SPEAK UP! 2016, the ONLY national leadership summit created by and for women living with HIV, is happening next month in Fort Walton Beach, Florida--and everyone is talking about it! Registration is [...]
Catch PWN-USA at AIDS 2016!
July 15, 2016: Members and staff of Positive Women's Network - USA are representing US women living with HIV at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa all week! Whether you are in Durban or back home, you can follow us on Twitter and add [...]
Grieving Orlando
We are heartbroken by the recent tragedy at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida which killed 49 people, the majority of whom were Latinx and other LGBTQ people of color. As women living with and affected by HIV, many of us [...]
PWN-USA Colorado Leads Activist Group in Winning Overhaul of Discriminatory, Outdated Laws
Activists with Senator Steadman, Rep. Daneya Esgar and Governor Hickenlooper at the bill signing Monday, June 6, 2016. Photo credit: Thomas Bogdan ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** Contact: Barb Cardell, CO Mod Squad Co-Chair, Barb@barbcardell.com 303-946-2529 June 8, 2016 – Colorado brought [...]