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  1. Statement on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2015)

    This statement addresses 1) broad public ignorance about HIV, STIs and identities associated with stigmatized diseases; 2) the criminalization of HIV; 3) HIV related discrimination in criminal justice and immigration detention facilities, and in the milita ...

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  2. Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Position on the Criminalization of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Other Communicable Diseases (2015)

    This statement was issued by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) on the urgent need to repeal or modernize HIV-specific criminalization statutes and laws criminalizing transmission or exposure to sexua ...

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  3. Letter to Michigan Elected Officials Opposing a Proposed Amendment to the Michigan Public Health Code, Positive Justice Project, et al, 2014

    The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, the Positive Justice Project (PJP), and more than thirty other national medical, infectious disease, public health and allied organizations, sent a letter to Michigan elected off ...

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  4. Syringe Ban Community Letter to the Chairman of the United States House and Senate Appropriation and Labor Subcommittees, Drug Policy Alliance et al. (2014)

    This letter, written by members of communities that have been affected by heroin and prescription drug injection use, calls on Senators Barbara Mikulski and Tom Harkin, and Representatives Hal Rogers and Jack Kingston, to lift the ban on federal funding fo ...

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  5. HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fact Sheet, Centers for Disease Control (March 2014)

    People with HIV are disproportionately affected by viral hepatitis, with about a 25% coinfection rate with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and a 10% coinfection rate with hepatitis B virus (HBV). This CDC HIV and Viral Hepatitis fact sheet provides an overview of ...

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  6. Networking for Policy Change – TB/HIV Participant’s Guide, World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership (2007)

    This participant’s guide is to be used alongside Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Stop TB Partnership, and is designed to help nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other advocates u ...

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  7. Networking for Policy Change- TB HIV Advocacy Training Manual, World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership (2007)

    The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Stop TB Partnership in collaboration with Constella Futures consultants designed this training manual to assist nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) develop and sustain effective advocacy skills focused on the TB/HIV e ...

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  8. HIV and Tuberculosis- A Deadly Human Syndemic, Candice K. Kwan and Joel D. Ernst, Clinical Microbiology Reviews (2011)

    Of the 33.4 million people living with HIV in 2008, nearly a third were estimated to have latent or active tuberculosis (TB); of the 9.4 million cases of TB, an estimated 15% were coinfected with HIV. This journal article reviews the current knowledge of ...

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  9. The HIV-Associated Tuberculosis Epidemic – When Will We Act?, Anthony D. Harries et al., The Lancet (2010)

    This journal article argues for a more aggressive approach to the HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, namely the implementation of the 3Is policy (intensified TB case finding, infection control, and isoniazid preventive therapy) combined with earli ...

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  10. WHO Policy on Collaborative TB HIV Activities – Guidelines for National Programmes and Other Stakeholders, World Health Organization (WHO) (2012)

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