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Building the Infrastructure for Liberation

CHLP's new impact report tells the story of how CHLP creates the relationships, leadership, legal strategies, movement infrastructure, and collective power that make positive justice possible.

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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 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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HIV Crim Map of USA

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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August 31, 2026

Harm Reduction as Our Resistance: Preventing Overdose by Building Systems of Care

Sean McCormick
CHLP Staff Attorney

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we reflect on the impact of overdose on our communities and demand responses rooted in care, dig

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August 14, 2026

CHLP Congratulates 2026 Gleason/Kettel Summer Law Fellow Madina Tabesh

CHLP congratulates summer intern Madina Tabesh for being awarded a 2026 Gleason/Kettel Summer Law Fellowship from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. The fellowship provides support for a law student or recent graduate to work in the field of sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.
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August 13, 2026

National HIV Organizations Caution that Pennsylvania Ends HIV Discrimination While Deepening Harms to Sex Workers and Survivors

CHLP, Positive Women’s Network-USA, and the Sero Project released an open letter that examines the recently passed Pennsylvania Senate Bill 45, celebrates the elimination of the HIV sentence enhancement, but calls for a more nuanced understanding of the law’s impact.
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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? 

Learn more about our strategic plan

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 (2026)

August 31, 2026
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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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