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News, information, and commentary by The Center for HIV Law and Policy.

4/8/2022 6:11am

News: Judge Strikes U.S. Military's Ban on Service for Some, But not All, People Living with HIV

Federal district court judge decision that the U.S. military's long-standing policy of banning servicemembers living with HIV from active duty is unconstitutional only applies to those who are undetectable and "asymptomatic."

3/30/2022 6:16pm

CHLP Endorses Letter Asking Biden Administration to Back Harm Reduction Services

On February 28 in advance of President Biden's State of the Union address, the Drug Policy Working Group sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of National Drug Control Policy to address the Administration’s response to media controversy regarding the potential funding of safer smoking kits in the SAMHSA harm reduction funding grant.

3/18/2022 4:31pm

CHLP Joins Bazelon Center Letter Supporting Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to U.S. Supreme Court

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, honoree at the Third Annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner, February 24, 2020, University of Chicago Law School. Photographer Lloyd DeGrane.

CHLP joins the Bazelon Center and 44 disability rights organizations and advocates in a letter supporting the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

3/10/2022 12:04pm

CHLP Joins The Well Project in a Webinar and Resource Sharing for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NWGHAAD is March 10, 2022, and CHLP is recognizing the work of our friends and partners at The Well Project by sharing a series of infographics they developed to raise awareness and highlight important facts related to breast/chestfeeding and HIV in the US.

3/8/2022 11:30am

International Women's Day Webinar with OHMM Focuses on the Incarceration of Women Living with HIV

On March 8, to raise awareness about HIV criminalization on International Women's Day and look towards National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, CHLP's Amir Sadeghi joined the Ohio Health Modernization Movement to discuss the racist and sexist bias in the enforcement of HIV criminal laws, and unpack HIV/viral hepatitis criminalization into the larger context of mass incarceration in the United States.