Every Trans Life. Every HIV Story. The HIV Caucus Fights for You. This message guided us at AIDSWatch this year — and it guides us now: Trans People Deserve More Than Remembrance! #TransDayOfRemembrance

Today PWN honors our 2025 Trans Day of Power (TDOP)! 💖 This national awareness day was created last year by PWN's trans & gender diverse staff caucus, and is celebrated during Trans Awareness Week. TDOP was created to recognize and elevate the love, labor, and commitment

"When you eliminate health coverage, erase data, criminalize survival, and ban health care, you don't need a law to say trans people should not exist ― the systems themselves make our survival impossible." -Michael Elizabeth Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus We will never leave our trans siblings behind.

The current administration has announced that it can use diabetes, obesity, and cancer to reject visa applicants. The HIV Caucus remembers when the U.S. had the same policy towards people living with HIV and we won't stand for it. Read the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...

#HappyVetetansDay to our advocates who are fighting the war against #HIV & #AIDS as well as to our service people who are living with HIV.

This week, our newsletter highlights: Treatment Action Group (TAG), Unity Arc Advocacy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, CHLP, PWN-USA, Equality Federation, IDPH, & AIDS United. As our headline says: We Work With Each Other. Not for Kings. Click here for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bae30f4bd047...

We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind. Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.

ICYMI: A call for all People Living with HIV and allies: it's time to reignite our movement to fight for our lives and improve our quality of life. HIV COMPLEXITIES THURS OCT 16, 6:30–8:00 PM ET Zoom • Free! Learn more & register: longcovidjustice.org/events/#hcpweb

HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis. Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next. Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services. SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding

Would this categorize LC under the HIV umbrella? My cohorts refer to this as CAIDS vs LC. 😣

TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator! Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV

Evany Turk reminds us to ensure that rehabilitation & assisted living facilities are doing right by older people living with HIV. Sometimes facilities hold onto our community members even when they're ready to go because they are making money off of their benefits.

Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.

People Living With HIV Need: Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us. We’re people first; just like you. Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD. #HIV #Liberation #NoStigma

We're excited to announce our new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions, hosted by Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW @gabrielhse.bsky.social, Senior Fellow at Long COVID Justice and member of the HIV Caucus @plhivcaucus.bsky.social Interest form & details: bit.ly/hiv-group

Trump & Republican legislators are still trying to cut #HIV funding from the 2026 budget. If we stop them now, they won't get away with it! The Reunion Project has come up with this list of actions you can take to fight back & help #SaveHIVFunding. Silence Equals Death. Let's make some noise!

The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV. People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form: www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...

When working with younger trans-women, don't center everything around a panel. Try being in community, hanging out w them. Showing up in your uniform makes it clear that you're in 1 place & you're in another. "It can't be just be, 'How are you doing? Here's some PrEP.' And leave."

Older people with HIV and older LGBTQ+ people are more likely to need to live in assisted living facilities because of stigma, lack of children, or no family support. It's why a Long-term Care Bill of Rights is essential. www.sageusa.org/resource/lgb...

Prevalence of chronic pain among people w HIV is 40-80%. Chronic pain is exhausting. Chronic fatigue is 1 of the most common features of HIV. "When they tell you that it's unexplainable fatigue, that forecloses any possibility that they will find a solution or invest in one." -Gabriel San Emeterio

Gabriel San Emeterio brilliantly breaks down the able-bodied to nondisabled binary around disability. #USCHA2025

This quilt isn't in memoriam. It's a warning about what will happen if these cuts come to pass. Cutting HIV funding and Medicaid will kill. -Javier Muñoz #savehivfunding Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign

This morning, the HIV Caucus attended the #SaveHIVFunding action on the National Lawn. As we closed the action, we joined to chant, "Kill the Cuts!" ― as in, kill the Medicaid cuts and attempts to eliminate #HIV funding.

We're attending a session on financial security for lifetime survivors who were never taught to survive. It is inspired by the Dandelions, people who were born with HIV or who acquired HIV very early in life.

Today, the Caucus is joining an action to #SaveHIVFunding w our peers where we unveil the #CutsKill AIDS Quilt Unveiled on Capitol Hill lawn. It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!

They wanted to treat #HIV but they didn't want to treat me. We tell people that HIV isn't a death sentence, but hearing that didn't matter to me because I wanted to die. -Venita Ray lays down the reality of how it can feel to be diagnosed with HIV.

Evany Turk presents on aging healthily with HIV: a housing model of care that centers on the evolution of Chicago House ― an org that has supported individuals & families impacted by HIV since 1985 with housing, health, and employment services. #USCHA2025

AJ Scruggs speaks about "Guys Like Us," an intimate training program for trans men w lived experience that explores how they are being treated when they enter care, learning how to deliver speeches, & using social media to share messaging across diverse networks.

We’re on the ground making it happen at @NMAC! We’ve already delivered 4 institutes, led a call to action, and met with hundreds of conference attendees at our exhibition booth. Make sure to drop by for #HIV Caucus swag, get your bingo card stamped, join as a member, and show your love!

At over three different institutes we have heard people thank Whitman-Walker for showing them how to live and thrive with #HIV. Thank goodness for clinics and organizations that truly support and pour into our community.

We used to talk about people dying [from HIV]. Now we talk about living, having a family, and relationships. So I take my being "seasoned" like a badge of honor. -Helen Zimba

"I didn't know transgender terminology until I met Cecilia Gentili." -Tiommi Luckett We don't realize who we are until we meet people who are part of our experience. A reminder of why community is essential. Especially for people living with HIV, like Tiommi.

If you don't know your HIV status, you can't be criminalized for non-disclosure. The problem is this discourages testing & getting into treatment which eliminates the possibility of transmission. (U=U). But these laws vary from state to state, which few people know. #USCHA2025

We are on the ground in DC & kicking our agenda into high gear. For a full overview of our schedules at USCHA, agenda, and safety tips, please read our latest newsletter. mailchi.mp/6413acfe8a11... Join us Friday in fighting for HIV funding.

Kicking off our pre-Institute! Thank you to Tori Cooper (HRC) for hosting us & for all of our anchor networks for coming through. (SERO Project, @pwnusa.bsky.social, & @equalityfed.bsky.social in the house). We start with joy & are moving straight onto business = charting our future course.

Are you ready to caucus with the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social?We've released our schedule for USCHA. Join us and let's make it happen. Be sure to visit us at our booth in the Exhibition Hall. We sharing information, listening to what people need, and making plans for the future. See you in DC!

2 weeks ago, @pwnusa.bsky.social launched their 2025 “Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the #HIV Movement” campaign. As we prepare to convene at #USCHA, let’s remember to celebrate & honor all of the incredible Black women in our movement. We can start by paying them. www.pwn-usa.org/celebrate-an...

Thousands of #HIV advocates are traveling to DC next week for the US Conference on HIV/AIDS. But we're not just in town to party. We're here to fight for our rights. To help activate our allies, the our Federal Strategies committee has developed 8 key demands and talking points. Please share!

Monday was the 36th anniversary of the Ryan White CARES Act being signed into law. This act covers treatment for people living with HIV so that they can thrive. Because of activists who fought for this act, our community continues to thrive & to demand the right for self determination. Join us.

Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement #CHBW2025 is finally here! Find out more about this year’s theme of Joy as Resistance and our 5 amazing honorees at tinyurl.com/CHBW2025 #ListenToBlackWomen #TrustBlackWomen #PayBlackWomen #RespectBlackWomen #ProtectBlackWomen #HonorBlackWomen

Here are notes & slides from our July 31 member empowerment meeting! Thank you to all of our presenters for their wisdom: mailchi.mp/9c199a74f226... And be sure to join our New Members Orientation tomorrow, August 12 from 1 PM to 2 PM (EST). Register here: bit.ly/45tQFbA

Why attend the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social's Membership meeting? Because when we act together, we can move mountains. It's how we ended the AIDS crisis & how we just saved HOPWA funding! So register for our July 31 webinar, & make sure your voice is heard. REGISTER: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...