Positive Women Decry Lack of Consultation With White House for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Event

March 11, 2015 - TheBody.com

By Julie "JD" Davids

Women living with HIV from around the United States spoke up on National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, decrying the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) for holding an event that included no positive women in the planning.

Although Vanessa Johnson of the Positive Women's Network -- USA (PWN-USA) was a speaker at the event, "Stepping Out of the Shadows: HIV & Violence Against Women and Girls," PWN-USA noted in a press release, "Not a single woman living with HIV -- including the women with HIV who currently sit on the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) -- was involved in putting together an event focused on an issue that is literally a matter of life and death for too many women and girls living with and affected by HIV in our communities." Continue reading…

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