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Last night CHLP proudly celebrated 20 years of making positive justice possible at a 20th anniversary reception hosted by the Fund for the City of New York. The evening reception was attended by CHLP staff, advisory board, event host committee, friends, and fellow advocates.

POZ Magazine featured a round-up of events in a "big week for HIV criminalization" that highlights CHLP's recent updates to its U.S. HIV criminalization maps, with a webinar on February 26 to explain the revisions and new features.

CHLP’s Positive Justice Project (PJP) announces the update of a signature resource that captures the threat to our communities posed by HIV criminalization laws across the country. Mapping HIV Criminalization Laws in the U.S. is designed to meet the needs of people living with and deeply affected by HIV, people advocating for reform of these laws and policies, and decision-makers implementing them.

CHLP wrote a letter to The Ethicist regarding a subscriber's email on February 3, 2025, with a letter entitled “Good in Bed: The Ethicist Answers Your Sex Questions, Part 2: I'm HIV Positive but Undetectable, Do Casual Partners Need to Know?" that contained dangerous information about HIV non-disclosure.

In 2025, CHLP proudly celebrates 20 years of advocacy, innovation, and unwavering commitment to HIV justice, kicking off with a CHLP20 New York City reception honoring Founding Executive Director Catherine Hanssens with the inaugural Urvashi Vaid Visionary Justice Award

The January / February edition of Positively Aware magazine features excerpts from CHLP's new aging primer, Aging & HIV: An introduction to legal issues facing people living and aging with HIV.

CHLP joins PrEP in Black America and Black-led organizations in a statement commemorating National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day with the theme “Resolve, Respect, and Restore.”

CHLP’s submitted comments address the necessity of guaranteeing a person’s right to give informed consent as to any portion of their medical care, and that the impact of these changes may be to further drive a wedge between communities that are vulnerable to HIV and the medical care system.

CHLP is releasing two resources this World AIDS Day focused on both explaining the issues related to Molecular HIV Surveillance and providing a policy path to protect data privacy as a means to improve access to healthcare.