CHLP and the APA in partnership with the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, convened nearly 50 state prosecutors, attorneys general, federal officials and national infectious disease experts at the White House to consider concrete ways to modernize state criminal laws and the criminal justice response to HIV-specific criminal laws.
The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA), through its Addressing Disparities to Reproductive Health Advisory Committee, released a Statement of Prosecutors expressing opposition to the criminalization of abortion in the wake of the recent SCOTUS decision draft leak.
Today is National Transgender HIV Testing Day #NTHTD and if there’s one thing that could address the mistrust and discrimination that communities hit hardest by HIV and STIs continue to experience it would be training licensed healthcare providers in sexual health, including how to talk to patients about sex, STIs and HIV. Read more about what CHLP is doing to tackle the issue in the new edition of CHLP's Briefing Paper newsletter.
Federal district court judge decision that the U.S. military's long-standing policy of banning servicemembers living with HIV from active duty is unconstitutional only applies to those who are undetectable and "asymptomatic."
CHLP joins the Bazelon Center and 44 disability rights organizations and advocates in a letter supporting the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
