CHLP Celebrates 20 Years
In 2025, CHLP proudly celebrates 20 years of advocacy, innovation, and unwavering commitment to HIV justice. Through its pioneering HIV decriminalization work, strategic legal and policy challenges, and its dedication to bringing an abolitionist lens to this work, CHLP has always been at the vanguard of HIV legal theory and thought throughout its 20-year history.
Since its founding in 2005, CHLP has been at the forefront of the movement to end HIV criminalization as the first national legal and policy resource center for advocates protecting and defending the rights of people living with and affected by HIV. CHLP has prioritized working in close partnership with HIV advocates and addressing the impact of HIV on LGBTQ+ people and Black and brown communities.
Reflecting on 20 Years of CHLP
CHLP asked advocates and partners from throughout its 20-year history to share their thoughts about CHLP, the impact the organization has had on the HIV justice movement, and how the organization's work continues to change laws and change lives.
CHLP20 Latest News
To commemorate this historic anniversary, CHLP kicked off the celebrations with CHLP20, a special reception in New York City in February. Click the stories below to read more.
20th Anniversary Campaign Update: Donate $40 for 40
This August, CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal is turning 40 — what better way to celebrate this brilliant Southern Black queer feminist than by honoring the incredible work she's championing at CHLP? Help us celebrate both Mandisa's 40th and CHLP's 20th by making a $40 for 40 donation today.