WWAV was honored to be a part of the Positive Women’s Network’s Raising Our Voices: An Advocacy Summit for HIV+ Women in the South.

PWN’s summit brought together over 60 HIV+ women leaders and allies from the Southern states for a 2 day meeting designed to build leadership and advocacy capacity among women living with HIV in the Southern U.S. The Summit was an inspiring gathering of advocates discussing health care reform, HIV criminalization and using data for social justice.

WWAV Executive Director, Deon Haywood, shared lessons learned from our policy work to combat Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute on a powerful plenary of advocates working at the intersection of Health, Rights, and Policy.