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The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the American Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (AAPA) have published a fact sheet that they hope will bring law enforcement officers up to speed on the real risks of HIV from possible exposure to the bodily fluids of those they police.

 The Positive Justice Project, in collaboration with the ACLU of Michigan, AIDS Partnership Michigan, The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Serra Services PLLC and several other local advocates, will host a Community Roundtable on HIV Criminalization in Michigan on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in the Lake Superior Room of the Library of Michigan (207 West Kalamazoo Street, Lansing, MI 48915). 

CHLP staff attorney Rashida Richardson will be a panelist at the College of Staten Island's "Careers in Activism, Advocacy & Evolving Politics on HIV/AIDS." 

Young women in a program focused on contraception access, sexual health capacity, and leadership-building were using contraceptives and safer sexual practices long after graduation.

The HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), a Positive Justice Project member organization, ran a wildly successful outreach campaign that expanded community awareness of the PJP campaign against HIV criminalization, and resulted in hundreds of new endorsements of the PJP Consensus Statement on HIV Criminalization in the United States. 

Created for criminal defense attorneys, this one-of-a-kind toolkit will arm advocates of all kinds looking for the law and facts to fight against HIV criminalization.

HIV PJA will host a campaign briefing call about the work the organization does as part of the Positive Justice Project. 

A study conducted in Ottawa, Canada, found that nondisclosure prosecutions do likely undermine HIV prevention efforts.

The Positive Justice Project, in collaboration with the Tennessee AIDS Advocacy Network (TAAN) and Tennessee Association of People With AIDS (TAPWA), will host a Community Roundtable on HIV Criminalization in Tennessee on March 20, 2013 at Nashville Cares (633 Thompson Lane, Nashville, TN 37204). The Positive Justice Project will also present at the Tennessee Department of Health- HIV/STD Program state-wide meeting on March 21st. 

The Policy Committee of the HIV Health & Human Services Planning Council invited the Positive Justice Project (PJP) to present on issues related to HIV criminalization at the Committee's January 2013 meeting at AIDS Service Center in Lower Manhattan