The Center for HIV Law and Policy challenges barriers to the rights and health of people affected by HIV through legal advocacy, high-impact policy initiatives, and creation of cross-issue partnerships, networks, and resources. We support movement building that amplifies the power of individuals and communities to mobilize for change that is rooted in racial, gender, and economic justice.

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  1. Chlamydia promotes gene mutations, PhysOrg, 2013

    Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) recently discovered that chlamydia affects genes in ways that could lead to the development of cancer. Normally, cells damaged by chlamydia either die or repair themselves. However, the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/7/2013 4:29pm

  2. Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-Related Legal Services, IDLO, UNAIDS, UNDP (2009)

    This toolkit is for attorneys, advocates, and people with HIV working to establish, strengthen, or expand HIV-related legal services. It sets forth practical recommendations regarding the design and scaling up of HIV-related legal services; various models ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 7/20/2020 4:09pm

  3. Ending overly broad criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission: Critical scientific, medical and legal considerations, UNAIDS (2013)

    This publication of UNAIDS supplements their 2008 report Policy Brief on criminalisation of HIV transmission, which analyzed the use of the criminal law against HIV positive defendants across the globe, and made recommendations about reducing these prosec ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 6/15/2020 4:01pm

  4. Association between HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors (Statins) Use and Cancer Occurrence among HIV-1 Treated Patients, V.Spagnuolo, L.Galli, A. Poli, L. Fumagalli1, N. Gianotti, A. Carbone, S. Nozza, S.Bossolasco, A. Lazzarin, A.Castagna (2013)

    This study reports a 46% reduction in cancer occurrence over a 10-year period for a sample of over 5,300 people with HIV who were using statins, drugs used to lower cholesterol levels by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. Prior to this study, statin ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/7/2013 4:29pm

  5. HIV Detectable in Semen of MSM Despite Suppression in Blood: First Longitudinal Study, Mark Mascolini, 7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (2013)

      This report summarizes the first longitudinal study regarding the amount of HIV detectable in semen samples of men who have sex with men (MSM) who have undetectable viral loads in blood samples due to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Previous studies have ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/7/2013 4:29pm

  6. Participant Observation at a Youth HIV Conference, Rena Greifinger et al., Qualitative Social Work (2013)

    This study sets forth the findings of participant observers at the One Love Project, a five-day conference for young people living with HIV and their allies from across the country. Observers – including the Founding Director of the One Love Project, a cl ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 9/29/2019 12:24pm

  7. Pathways to Embodiment of HIV Risk: Black Men Who Have Sex With Transgender Partners, Boston, Massachusetts, Sari Reisner et al., AIDS Education and Prevention (2012)

    This article explores the sociocultural, educational, and psychological factors significantly associated with poorer health-related outcomes, including HIV sexual risk, in black men with transgender sex partners in Boston, Massachusetts. The study relied ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 1/9/2021 3:39pm

  8. Premature Age-Related Comorbidities Among HIV-Infected Persons Compared With the General Population, Giovanni Guaraldi et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases Advance Access (2011)

    This article examines the frequency of noninfectious comorbidities (NICMs), including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, bone fractures, and renal failure, in people living with HIV compared with the general population. The authors o ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 3/24/2014 12:29pm

  9. HIV Treatment Optimism and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among HIV Positive African American Men Who Have Sex With Men, John L. Peterson et al., AIDS Education and Prevention (2012)

    This study examines the association between HIV positive African American men who have sex with men's (MSM) optimism about their HIV status and their sexual risk behavior. Researchers found that participants who believed their treatment lowered the r ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 3/24/2014 12:30pm

  10. Risk of HIV Infection Per Single Sexual Exposure to An Individual Living With HIV And Other Life Events With Comparable Risk of Occurrence, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2011)

    Much of the discrimination that PLWH experience-- from the workplace to the many criminal laws that target them-- is based on a gross misunderstanding of the actual routes and statistical likelihood of HIV transmission. There is a broad lack of understand ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 9/21/2019 6:10pm

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