The United States People Living with HIV Caucus

The United States People Living with HIV Caucus (also known as “the HIV Caucus”), was formed in 2010 to meet the need for a national voice for people living with HIV (PLHIV). The HIV Caucus is a coalition of the major national networks of PLHIV in the United States, organizations, coalitions, client groups, and independent advocates living with HIV. Through its members, the HIV Caucus represents communities most impacted by the epidemic in the United States. From our embodied and lived experience, we understand HIV-related stigma, discrimination, and structural conditions -- including racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, and poverty -- in direct ways.

The HIV Caucus advocates for human rights and dignity for people living with HIV, provides leadership development and technical assistance to people living with HIV and organizations serving them, and serves as a co-organizing partner for AIDSWatch, the national HIV advocacy event that brings together hundreds of PLHIV and allies from around the country each year to engage with Congress and federal agencies in Washington, D.C.

SisterLove

SisterLove, Inc., is the oldest women-centered HIV and sexual & reproductive health organization in the Southeastern United States. It was founded in 1989 to address HIV-related education, prevention, and research, and to support the rights of reproductive justice for all women and girls. SisterLove’s mission is to eradicate the impact of HIV and other sexual and reproductive oppression of all women and their communities in the United States and globally. SisterLove, Inc. is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with a satellite office in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 SisterLove believes that all people must be able to exercise the human right to health in an environment that provides: culturally affirming, affordable, and nondiscriminatory reproductive health resources; access to necessary sexual and reproductive health information; the political and economic resources necessary for basic human dignity; the self-determination necessary to nurture personal growth and community survival; and autonomy free from all forms of discrimination and violence.