Women's Advocacy Resource Connection

Summer 2010 Women's Advocacy Resource Connection Electronic Forum on Human Rights, HIV and Inequality: July 12-31, 2010

Speak Up online starting July 12, 9am, at: http://hivlawandpolicy.org/forum

• Are you an HIV positive woman or have you ever advocated for an HIV positive woman?
• Are you an attorney, legal professional, community-based activist/educator, case manager, counselor or policy analyst that has had experience with HIV-based discrimination cases?
• Have you ever been treated differently because of your HIV status? In employment? Health care? Or any other situation? Has someone that you know ever experienced different or unequal treatment because of her HIV status?
• Do you think there are ways our local, state, and national government can better respect and protect your rights and the rights of all women living with or affected by HIV?

Make your voice heard!

Join the national discussion online July 12-31, 2010: http://hivlawandpolicy.org/forum

Starting at 9 AM EST on Monday, July 12, you can share your experience, anonymously if you like, as part of a nationwide online community conversation led by HIV positive women and HIV rights advocates at the Summer 2010 Women's Advocacy Resource Connection National Electronic Forum (WARC E-Forum).

Now that the International AIDS Conference will take place this July in Vienna and President Obama is releasing the first ever U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), your voice counts more than ever.

Our goal is to share our experiences and to learn where the gaps are in human and civil rights protections for women living with HIV.

We hope to put these shared experiences to work to help inform the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on how NHAS can most effectively be implemented to respect the needs and rights of HIV positive women on a practical day-to-day level.

The WARC E-Forum is hosted by the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), and co-facilitated by the American Bar Association Human Rights Center/AIDS Coordination Project, WORLD/Positive Women's Network, Women of Color United, The National Association of People With AIDS, and HIV Law Project, among other community partners.