The U.S. Positive Women's Network (PWN), a project of Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease (WORLD), is a national membership body led by and for HIV-positive women, including transgender women. Our mission is to involve HIV-positive women at all levels of policy analysis and decision-making to improve the quality of our live. We work towards a gender-sensitive U.S. HIV response by: 1) cultivating leadership of HIV-positive women 2) shifting public perception and public will to promote a compassionate response to all people living with HIV 3) analyzing and changing policy and 4) building capacity for collective action among women and HIV advocates. For more information on the U.S. Positive Women's Network please visit: www.womenhiv.org/positivewomen
A brutal rape and sexual assault was not enough. Now the NY Post has turned its vicious sights on the woman who brought assault charges against IMF leader Dominique Strauss. Positive Women’s Network demands an apology.
The misuse of bio-terrorism laws to prosecute an HIV positive man is but one example of how efforts to criminalize HIV stigmatize individuals and simultaneously threaten public health.
