Reflections on USCA 2010: Documenting Women’s Voices Stigma and Discrimination in Disney World by Barb Cardell Night falls, I sit in my room, Orlando Florida, looking out over the horizon and I see it, the Cinderella Castle, the dreaded Magical Kingdom that Walt Disney built, the House of the Mouse and so on… I sigh [...]
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Gender Audit of National HIV/AIDS Strategy Released!
Thirteen organizations today released a gender audit of the first-ever U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The document is an analysis, from a gender perspective, of the Strategy, and lays out recommendations for the Strategy’s implementation to improve all women’s, including transgender women’s, access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment consistent with the right to nondiscrimination, dignity, [...]
WORLD at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna!
PWN was at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna! They presented posters, workshops, and the fabulous Waheedah Shabazz-El was the closing plenary to welcome folks to Washington, DC’s International AIDS Conference in 2012. Click for more coverage of the conference with updates on key issues and perspectives relevant to women, girls, human rights and gender [...]
Calling All Women: Speak Up on Next Steps for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy!
As we all celebrate the newly-released National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), several questions remain about how the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) and other Federal Agencies should implement it. The new strategy provides a good basic framework, but lacks specific direction on many important issues facing women. If we want them to put women-specific plans [...]
PWN is hiring!
The U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN) was recently awarded a grant from the MAC AIDS Fund to build strategic communications capacity for women and HIV advocates, especially HIV-positive women. We are hiring someone to coordinate the PWN’s Strategic Communications Action Team! Please see the job announcement attached and circulate it widely. Deadline to apply is [...]
Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 10, 2010 is Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. What’s the big deal about that? Here in the United States, women comprise nearly one-third of HIV infections, up from about 8% in 1984. In many countries around the world, women already represent more than half of HIV infections. Rates of teenage pregnancy and of [...]
