HIV criminalization advocacy will be a major highlight during AIDS United's Southern REACH Convening at the United State Conference on AIDS. PJP members Rashida Richardson and Robert Suttle will participate in a session on focused on HIV criminalization state-level advocacy strategy development for Southern REACH grantees. This will take place on Friday, September 6, 2013, at 3 PM.
Drug-resistant gonorrhea, which makes up about 30% of the estimated 820,000 new cases of gonorrhea each year, has been prioritized as an "urgent threat" to the public's health by the CDC.
Queens Pride House is hosting a public forum on police misconduct, including condom confiscation in New York City, featuring CHLP Legal Director Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal.
HIV criminalization laws continue to be enforced in states across the country.
LGBT and HIV-affected immigrants experience significant abuse in immigration detention facilities and deprivation of legal protections, according to El Diario/La Prensa.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on the rights of LGBT and HIV-affected people at the intersection of immigration and criminal justice systems.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop in Spanish at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on serving Spanish-speaking clients and communities.
Gay men can face a uniquely intense form of persecution in Jamaica. Homophobia and ignorance about HIV are reflected in, and compounded by, the widely-held perception of gay men as vectors of disease. Gay men are presumed to be HIV positive and treated as dangerous to be around regardless of their actual HIV status.