We continue to see progress in decriminalizing HIV, but carcerality is on the rise, with the federal government adding fuel to its resurgence.

Maine HIV outbreak shows the risk of Trump’s crackdown on homelessness and drug use www.newsfromthestates.com/article/main...

And a major threat to public health.

Another update on this front: the Cook County Public Defender's Office tells me an unclear number of ICE agents, this time in a marked vehicle, went back to the domestic violence courthouse in Chicago around 1 pm today. Office says they left about 30 min. later, again without any reported arrests.

Harm reduction has brought tremendous progress in the overdose crisis, but carceral tactics, like involuntary confinement, endanger any successes we've seen. The EO and other federal and state moves to carcerality are a threat to our health. hivlawandpolicy.medium.com/dismantling-...

“The comment that [Kennedy] made about the vaccine schedule, it’s basically scientific racism, which has been debunked,” Dr. Oni Blackstock told HuffPost.

Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is. What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.

A U.N.-backed food security group has issued a dire warning: famine has officially now taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread in the coming months.

The administration’s approach to our housing crisis takes inspiration from decades of oppressive practices; it is nothing new. Ending Housing First support will do nothing to address the failures of our housing system. Enough of this destruction. Call it out. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

These tactics are coming for your community, as they have violently come to many communities across our country.

Devastating news. Opponents of bodily autonomy and health are responsible for the harmful effects their policy decisions will cause. www.wdsu.com/article/loui...

It’s a wholesale divestment of proven strategies and reinvestment in violent, carceral tactics. The EO will have deadly effects.

The administration wants to redefine harm reduction. And people will continue to be harmed by systems that were never designed to protect their health. www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...

Anyone suggesting “civil commitment” is a public health strategy is ignoring its racist, classist, ableist, and sexist origins and impact. There is no place for carcerality in public health. hivlawandpolicy.org/news/stateme...

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

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An insightful testimony. Thank you for sharing, @juanmichaelii.bsky.social. HIV criminalization laws are an oppressive, stigmatizing force, even when charges are not brought. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/07/21/i...

PLHIV deserve justice now! www.wwno.org/public-healt...

Louisiana, and every state, deserve public health solutions to the STI epidemics. Criminalization will only harm our communities further. www.nola.com/opinions/gue...

Stripping anyone of healthcare coverage is a denial of the person's humanity. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

We will overcome these days. But we will always remember when our government doubled down on racist, violent carcerality and the continued disinvestment in working class and Black and brown communities.

Criminalization is a tool of oppressive systems. Isolating people in cages, without communication, is a way to otherize and marginalize.

An absolute massacre of Black and brown people, especially children, by any metric. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

People will always be deterred from testing when their status can be used to criminalize them. wreg.com/news/local/s...

The terror is the point.

Heartbroken for the kids who are begging for care that respects their experience. They deserve so much more. And these monsters don't give a shit. #Skrmetti

The budget request is a direct attack on communities most impacted by the epidemic, especially LGBTQ+ people and Black and brown people. I'm very disgusted to see that HOPWA and the Minority AIDS Initiative would be entirely eliminated. www.kff.org/hivaids/issu...

Disturbing! We must end the drug war.

Reminder that police lie, all the time. Especially if they are implicated in violence themselves. The notion prevalent in mainstream media narratives and pop culture/media that police are trustworthy or offer protection or safety is not only false—it is dangerous; it is copaganda.

Here we go again. We looked at the health effects of the "Muslim ban" in Trump's first term: it increased missed primary care & ER visits in people from the targeted countries. This latest round of bans from Trump may turn out to have implications for health as well. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Maryland *made a huge step* to decriminalize HIV - people living with HIV and other stigmatized conditions face criminal penalties based on their health status. The fight continues. Maryland becomes 5th state to decriminalize HIV - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/mary...

THE Governor Wes Moore made the just move that advances our fight to end the epidemic. www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/21/w...

Maryland just became the fifth state to fully repeal its HIV-specific criminal offense. Congratulations to everyone who worked tirelessly to bring us closer to justice for PLHIV. Let's keep up the work.

Better access, but we need more progress, given the federal onslaught. www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Any work requirements are plainly racist, classist garbage, aimed at depriving healthcare to millions. www.einpresswire.com/article/8133...

These are deadly attacks. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

Trump’s proposed funding cuts to overdose prevention services like naloxone are unacceptable. DPA federal policy manager Hanna Sharif-Kazemi spoke to CBS about how cuts put lives at risk and jeopardize the progress we’ve made curbing the overdose crisis. www.cbsnews.com/news/overdos...

Under Texas’ abortion ban, the rate of sepsis shot up by more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost a second-trimester pregnancy. Our new analysis shows the risk varies widely between the state’s two largest metro areas. By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com

Criminalization is a threat to us all, but we know it especially targets Black and brown people and LGBTQ+ people. These laws don't make us safer and don't meet the needs of survivors. We need evidence-based public health solutions, not destructive carceral approaches.

Heartbreaking tragedy. www.newsweek.com/ice-immigrat...

We’ve never lived up to what children deserve - and this administration is making it even harder to care for children. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Defunding prevention and treatment will only make it more likely that our communities will be targeted by police and other carceral strategies. @hivlawandpolicy.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

People will die because of this budget, especially this particular provision. And you have to wonder: is that the point? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

Supply-side carcerality is a destructive distraction that does nothing to address the underlying drivers of the overdose crisis. We need more compassionate, evidence-based care, not the same-old drug war strategies. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Join our conversation on how to fight back against discrimination against people living with HIV and other disabilities. We know our communities are under attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlRb...

And it is also an erasure of Black, brown, and queer people living with disabilities.

. @katherinejwu.com addresses the consequences of the Trump admin's attacks on #HIV & "whom they are willing to sacrifice along the way" while centering our community. PS: Notice the people-first language in the photo caption & thoughtful quotes throughout. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Growing old with HIV is now possible. Trump’s CDC cuts threaten that progress. 19thnews.org/2025/04/hiv-... via @19thnews.org