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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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April 30, 2024

News Release: Tennessee Removes Aggravated Prostitution from Offenses Requiring Sex Offender Registration

A new law in Tennessee removes aggravated prostitution as a registerable violent sexual offense, a significant victory for people living with HIV who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, allowing them to petition for removal from the sex offense registry.
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April 12, 2024

CHLP Presents to PACHA about Work to Combat the Surveillance, Criminalization, and Oppression of PLHIV

In March, CHLP Staff Attorneys Jada Hicks, Sean McCormick, and Kae Greenberg met with the new Criminalization and Discrimination Working Group in the Stigma and Disparities Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
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April 5, 2024

CHLP Attends "On Aging" as Our HIV and Aging Work Expands

CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal and Staff Attorney Kae Greenberg attended the American Society on Aging's 70th annual On Aging conference last week in San Francisco.
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Visionary Justice

If you share CHLP's vision of radical, transformative, and Visionary Justice, please donate to our fundraising campaign. The entire CHLP team thanks you for your solidarity and support. We cannot create the world we all deserve without you! 

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What We Do

Positive Justice Project

A national coalition of organizations and individuals working to end HIV criminalization.

Sexual Health Literacy

Working for the rights of youth in state custody to comprehensive, LGBTQ-affirming sexual health care.

Molecular HIV Surveillance

Protecting the privacy and rights of people living with HIV and from the misuse of molecular surveillance data.

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The DOJ Findings on the ADA in Tennessee, Part 1: Exploring the Facts

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Remembering & Recommitting

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Let's Talk Abolition: Pride Edition

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Find Laws In Your State

Information on HIV criminalization laws and policies in every state based on research for CHLP's Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice.

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Featured CHLP Publications

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HIV Criminalization in the United States: A Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice, CHLP (updated January 2024)

January 31, 2024
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The PJP Update, Positive Justice Project (September 2022)

September 12, 2022
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Map: HIV Criminalization in the United States, CHLP (updated 2022)

June 28, 2022
Timeline of State Reforms and Repeals of HIV Criminal Laws
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Timeline of State Reforms and Repeals of HIV Criminal Laws, CHLP (updated 2022)

June 28, 2022
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Map: An Overview of States Criminalizing Viral Hepatitis, CHLP (updated May 2022)

May 18, 2022
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U.S. HIV Laws and Prosecutorial Tools, CHLP (updated 2022)

April 4, 2022
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Latest Resources

CHLP's National Resource Center on HIV, Infectious Disease, Sexual Health and Identity is a comprehensive database of materials to inform and support sound laws and advocacy around stigmatized identities.

White Papers and Reports

Sex Offense Civil Commitment — Minnesota’s Failed Investment and the $100 Million Opportunity to Stop Sexual Violence, SOLPRC (2024)

The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center released a report challenging Minnesota’s allocation of sexual violence prevention resources, with a particular focus on the harms and missed opportunities caused by the extraordinarily disproportionate allocation of resources to Sex Offense Civil Commitment (“SOCC”) and the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (“MSOP”).
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The Impact of HIV Criminalization in Louisiana, Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health (LCCH) (2024)

In late 2023, the Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health (LCCH) conducted a statewide, community-based study to understand the true impacts of the HIV “exposure” law on people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Louisiana, as well as its influence on public health and safety. The purpose was to investigate the effects of the HIV law on the overall well-being of the community, regardless of whether individuals are living with HIV.
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2023-2024 Report of HIV Criminalization, (HR 130) Task Force (2024)

The Louisiana legislature created the HIV Criminalization Task Force (Task Force) to study the public health outcomes related to the criminalization of HIV and provide recommendations to modernize R.S. 14.43.5 to reflect both the realities regarding the routes and risks of transmission of HIV and to better serve the public interest in the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative in Louisiana.
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