Naina Khanna

WORLD

Naina Khanna is the director of policy and community organizing at Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease (WORLD) and the coordinator for the U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN), a national membership body of HIV-positive women working for federal policy change. For more information about the PWN, please visit www.pwn-usa.org

If Sandra Fluke’s a “Slut,” What Am I? HIV and (Institutional) Violence Against Women

Naina Khanna

As a woman living with HIV and working with HIV-positive women throughout the U.S., I know all too well what character assassinations, funding restrictions, and the overall environment can do to women.

Psycho-what? Services for Women Are Disappearing

Naina Khanna

In a disturbing trend, women-centered HIV services are being quietly defunded. This means HIV-postive women have fewer places to go for peer support, mental health and other critical services.

Facing the Real Threats: Achieving a Meaningful National HIV/AIDS Strategy for Women

Naina Khanna

Although HIV is considered a chronic manageable condition in the U.S., AIDS-related illnesses continue to be the leading cause of death among African-American women aged 25 to 34 years old.

Why Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Matters: Voice of Positive Women

Naina Khanna

Many Americans think of HIV as a men's disease -- even though women comprise almost a third of HIV infections.

Naina Khanna

If Sandra Fluke’s a “Slut,” What Am I? HIV and (Institutional) Violence Against Women

Psycho-what? Services for Women Are Disappearing

Facing the Real Threats: Achieving a Meaningful National HIV/AIDS Strategy for Women

Why Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Matters: Voice of Positive Women

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