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Advancing justice, rooted in liberation

CHLP's new strategic plan asks, how do we help create a future where people living with HIV and other stigmatized health conditions live freely—without surveillance, discrimination, stigma, violence, or criminalization? 

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Abolition for our people

Join us on a shared path of grounding and growing our work and our movement in abolitionist thinking and values. In this webinar series, we’ll explore what it means to build justice that heals rather than harms, and to create systems rooted in care, accountability, and collective liberation for our people. 

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Abolition for Our People: We are each other's harvest: Addressing harm through transformative and restorative justice

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Abolition for Our People: Assessing the landscape: Authoritarianism and the fight for public health justice

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Abolition for Our People: Cultivating Positive Justice - Ending HIV criminalization through principled coalition-based advocacy

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Abolition for Our People: Abolition 101 - Grounding our movement in liberation

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Updated: Mapping HIV Criminalization Laws in the U.S.

The new release of CHLP's HIV criminalization maps represent a substantial update resulting from a comprehensive research process and updated methodology based on CHLP’s Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice.

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In the News

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February 12, 2026

CHLP’s Radical Roots Project Brings HIV Justice Education to HBCUs

CHLP recently organized a new student outreach initiative – Radical Roots: HBCUs for Justice – that builds knowledge, reduces stigma, and sparks action around HIV criminalization by partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the South.
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February 5, 2026

Defy Erasure, Defend Resistance, Disrupt Criminalization: The Positive Justice Project Partners Group National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Statement

Debra Fraser-Howze, founder of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA) – now known as Black Health – once stated that the inequita

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February 4, 2026

Department of Defense Pauses Recruitment of People Living with HIV

The Trump administration has paused recruiting people living with HIV, signaling a return to discriminatory enlistment policies. Although people living with HIV were historically barred from enlistment and deployment, recent court rulings have limited these restrictions, recognizing that individuals with undetectable viral loads can safely and effectively serve.
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Explore the Latest Resources

Explore this collection of more than 1,000 legal resources to support and increase the advocacy power and expertise of attorneys, community members, service providers, and all people living with HIV.

 

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Featured CHLP Publications

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A Community Guide to Record Clearing, CHLP (2025)

December 5, 2025
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Positive Justice Project Guiding Principles, CHLP (2025)

December 1, 2025
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Mapping HIV Criminalization Laws in the U.S., CHLP (2025)

November 12, 2025
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New York's Shadow Prisons, CHLP (2025)

July 1, 2025
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Timeline of State Reforms and Repeals of HIV Criminal Laws, CHLP (2025)

May 27, 2025
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What is Molecular HIV Surveillance and does it put me at risk? CHLP (2024)

November 26, 2024
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Making positive justice possible.

CHLP is an abolitionist legal and policy organization that envisions and works for a world where HIV and other stigmatized health conditions are no longer criminalized but met with compassion and the resources to thrive.

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