The Center for HIV Law and Policy and its Positive Justice Project have been closely following the proposed Legislative Bill 226 in Nebraska as well as assisting Nebraska advocates in organizing a response. The Assault with Bodily Fluids Bill would crimin ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 8/16/2017 11:14am
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), an organization that represents public health officials and administers state and territorial HIV/AIDS programs, has released a statement supporting efforts to end HIV-specific crimin ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
This letter, drafted by the Center for HIV Law and Policy and signed by many Positive Justice Project members, addresses the lack of language about HIV criminalization in the proposed letters from the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS' (PACHA ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 2:01pm
Congresswoman Barbara Lee's (D-CA) letter to President Obama calling for a renewed effort to reduce HIV transmission and expand access to care. In the letter, Congresswoman Lee made three requests; 1) for President Obama to announce a new goal of tre ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:48pm
The Positive Justice Project is convening a pre-USCA session on HIV criminalization entitled, " When Sex is a Crime and Spit a Dangerous Weapon: Defending Against HIV Criminal Laws " on Wednesday, November 9, shortly before the opening sessions ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:45pm
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the denial by the U.S. District Court in Oregon of a petition for habeas corpus and found that the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence to convict Andrew Lee Boyer of ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
The Positive Justice Project (PJP) drafted this proposal for a resolution by PACHA that would identify key problems with criminal law approaches to HIV prevention, and principles that should guide any laws or prosecutions that target people with HIV or ot ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/13/2017 6:37pm
The Center for HIV Law and Policy and the Positive Justice Project joined the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requesting clear statements from the CDC on HIV criminalization laws and poli ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 7/12/2019 12:55pm
Leading HIV organizations in the U.S. sent a letter to President Obama today about the speech he will deliver on World AIDS Day, December 1st. The 2011 World AIDS Day theme is "Getting to Zero"-- zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 3/29/2020 10:23am