News

The Center for HIV Law and Policy congratulates Advisory Board Member Hadiyah Charles for being named one of the White House Champions of Change this week.

On May 24, 2011, the Center for HIV Law and Policy and the Positive Justice Project joined the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requesting clear statements from the CDC on HIV criminalization laws and policies.

David W. Webber, editor of AIDS and the Law, has produced two new documents to help practitioners and advocates understand and apply the amendments to the ADA and recently released regulations.

The Positive Justice Project, CHLP's coalition of legal and public health experts that represent people living with HIV, is speaking out against sensationalist media coverage of criminal charges that have been brought against an HIV-positive African American man in Buffalo.

On April 4, 2011 the Center for HIV Law and Policy and several Teen SENSE coalition partners submitted comments on the Department of Justice's (DOJ) standards for the elimination of sexual assault in state and federal correctional facilities across the country.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released the final version of its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations, which clarifies that HIV infection is a disability.  

This criminalization article in the Edge Provincetown features Positive Justice Project partners Alison Yager of the HIV Law Project and Terrance Moore of NASTAD.

In another federal step to end HIV-related discrimination at the state level, the Department of Justice issued a letter this week to state and territorial attorneys general requesting that they review the exclusion of HIV- positive persons from occupational training and state licensing. 

Please join the Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative in conjunction with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 2:00pm EST for an important tele-briefing on HIV criminalization in the U.S. with advocates from The Center for HIV Law & Policy (CHLP), The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) and Harlem United.