The governor of Maryland signed a bill repealing the state’s HIV criminal offense, making it the fifth state to do so and the second state to do so in the last 60 days.
This article from HuffPost discusses how cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services will negatively impact trans people by creating more barriers to HIV treatment and end access to prevention programs.
CHLP, Lambda Legal, PrEP4All, Harvard Law’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI), and GLAAD, today released statements following oral arguments in the Braidwood case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court this morning.
At 10:00am ET today, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood. The case is an attack on the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that require private insurers to cover preventative care with no co-pay or cost sharing for a range of services from PrEP to cancer screenings.
This article from HuffPost discusses the SCOTUS case Kennedy v. Braidwood, a significant challenge to the Affordable Care Act that could strip away insurance coverage for preventive services like cancer screenings, HIV prevention, and diabetes medication for millions of Americans.
On March 19, the governor of North Dakota signed bipartisan House Bill 1217 into law, making North Dakota the fourth state to fully repeal its HIV criminal offense.
CHLP emphatically condemns the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to dramatically restructure HHS, eliminating tens of thousands of necessary jobs and consolidating several departments.
"A year after the Biden administration laid a blueprint for the federal government to take aim at state laws that criminalize the transmission of HIV, activists say that with the Trump administration, they’ve lost a crucial ally in challenging these outdated, racist, and homophobic laws."
