Beyond Stigma: Policy Responses to Criminalization
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CHLP's Kytara Epps joins Equality Federation and friends on on Thursday, August 21, for the public health training, Beyond Stigma: Policy Responses to Criminalization.
In this training, attendees will gain critical insights into the urgent need to modernize laws that criminalize people living with HIV. This session explores the detrimental effects of criminalization on public health and human rights, paying particular attention to the complex realities faced by intersecting communities, such as the stigmatization and criminalization of sex work.
Panelists:
- Kytara Epps, CHLP
- Phillip Westry, FreeState Justice
- Mauree Turner, Freedom Oklahoma
- Kelly Flannery, Health Not Prisons Collective
- Juan Michael Porter II, US PLHIV Caucus
- Robert Suttle, HIV Advocacy Training Consultant, Equality Federation
