News

10/20/2022 3:57pm

CHLP Statement Regarding PACHA Resolution on Molecular HIV Surveillance

CHLP releases a statement on PACHA's recommendations to the CDC on molecular HIV surveillance.

10/3/2022 2:59pm

Times-Picayune: HIV is no longer a death sentence. But under Louisiana law, it can be a prison sentence

CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal spoke about the ongoing work to reform the HIV criminalization laws in Louisiana. “Our coalition tried unsuccessfully to get the lawmakers to modernize it in the way that we knew, based on data and based on experience, was really necessary,” said Mandisa Moore-O’Neal, co-founder of the Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health.

9/22/2022 10:55am

Virginia Supreme Court Ruling Vindicates Activist

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The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court in Baughman v. Virginia validates the main argument in CHLP's amicus brief and ends the state’s latest efforts to indefinitely civilly commit activist Galen Baughman as a “sexually violent predator.”

7/25/2022 1:59pm

CHLP Announces Leadership Change

Mandisa Moore-O’Neal will become Executive Director in October as Founder Catherine Hanssens steps into a strategy advisor role.

7/7/2022 1:30pm

White House Office of National AIDS Policy Hosts Historic Prosecutor Roundtable on HIV Criminal Law

CHLP and the APA in partnership with the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, convened nearly 50 state prosecutors, attorneys general, federal officials and national infectious disease experts at the White House to consider concrete ways to modernize state criminal laws and the criminal justice response to HIV-specific criminal laws.