Last week CHLP’s #Team2Dream was in Chicago for the AMA Foundation LGBTQ+ Health Program National Consortium Convening, where Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal spoke at a plenary on public health that examined community-level approaches to LGBTQ+ public health. #HIVAdvocates #PublicHealth

Last week CHLP’s #Team2Dream attended NMAC’s 10th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in Chicago where Staff Attorney Sean McCormick presented on how public health can work to address HIV criminalization. #HIVAdvocates #DecriminalizeHIV #PublicHealth

On March 31, a U.S. District Court allowed a first-of-its-kind challenge to an HIV criminalization law using the ADA to move forward. The court granted in part and denied in part the state’s motion to dismiss. What does it mean? Read our explainer: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/ou... #TeamATAC

Earlier this month in Chicago, CHLP and Bluhm Legal Clinic’s LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law hosted a two-day #TeamATAC convening focused on advancing legal strategies to challenge HIV criminalization using the #ADA. Read more at www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/chlp-co...

You have it on our word. The HIV BASIC (Bodily Autonomy, Surveillance & Informed Consent) movement is: ** rooted in justice ** leading with MIPA ** keeping us safe ** based on core principles ** working for a better world Join us at tinyurl.com/hiv-basic @pwnusa.bsky.social

If you are attending the Collective Power conference this weekend, don’t miss CHLP's Kytara Epps in a presentation on the intersections between HIV criminalization and reproductive justice. More info at hivlawandpolicy.org/events or collectivepowerrj.org/collective-p...

If you are attending NMAC’s 10th Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit in Chicago this week, don’t miss CHLP Staff Attorney Sean McCormick’s presentation on HIV criminalization and how public health can work to address it on Thursday at 10:45am. #HIVAdvocates More: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/events/biome...

Wild that conversion "therapy" - a harmful and disproven approach - is considered "free speech," yet 27 states are allowed to have policies that limit/ban gender affirming care for youth - care that is known to be life-affirming and life-saving.

"If the U.S. HIV response continues to backslide, certain segments of the population will be affected far more than others. Today, a disproportionate share of the roughly 40,000 new HIV cases per year in the U.S. are in Black and Hispanic gay and bisexual men, especially in the South....

Visibility shouldn’t come with risk—but for trans people right now, it does. That’s why solidarity matters. Demand health care, safety, and dignity—and challenge the systems harming our communities. We see you. We’re with you. #TDOV

At the NYC AIDS Memorial on Saturday, CHLP Comms Manager D. Reznik and PWN Policy Director Kelly Flannery were in attendance at the ACT UP 39th anniversary rally to protest the Trump administration’s slashing of HIV/AIDS budgets while increasing budgets for ICE and the war on Iran. #Team2Dream

CHLP's S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal and Amir Sadeghi met with the Science, Health, and Information Clinic (SHIC) at the NYU School of Law to speak with clinic students about movement lawyering and CHLP’s work advancing an abolitionist politic within the broader HIV justice advocacy ecosystem. #Team2Dream

We are HIV BASIC, a growing movement grounded in shared values of MIPA, bodily autonomy, informed consent & freedom from criminalization. Read our statement, if you agree, you might just be BASIC like us. Endorse the Consensus Statement at tinyurl.com/hiv-basic @pwnusa.bsky.social @hivjustice.net

This is a stopgap measure in effect through June 30 as lawmakers work toward a new state budget for the 2026–27 fiscal year. positivelyaware.com/florida-adap-temporary-funding

New storytelling zine from Beyond Do No Harm highlights HIV criminalization with CHLP's Jada Hicks and TN advocate Lashanda Salinas. It pairs lived experience + legal insight—connecting personal harm to systemic stigma and the power of community-led advocacy. www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/beyond-...

HIV BASIC coalition members were out in force at AIDS Watch this week in Washington DC, spreading the word about the HIV BASIC Consensus Statement. Join us in demanding public health respect privacy, consent, and bodily autonomy. More: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/co... @pwnusa.bsky.social

Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We are observing this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of an agenda that continues to erase Indigenous people and culture. #ItsStillNNHAAD

Clinician Jeffrey Birnbaum says it is past time for New York state to decriminalize STIs, and we agree! Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Peoples-Stokes: Call the REPEAL STI Discrimination Act (A.733A) for a vote. Read the Albany Times Union op-ed: bit.ly/4sTFQsn @nyclu.org @lambdalegal.org

"Throughout the event, an updated version of the classic ACT UP 'Silence=Death' logo hung on a large banner with the new phrase 'Cuts=Death.' Throughout the event, call-and-response chants drilled in messages like 'Cuts kill, funding saves.'" #SaveHIVFunding

Florida is not the only state cutting access to HIV medications. It is a "man-made public health crisis" that was then and is now a reflection of whose lives those in power value and whose they do not. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We observe this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of a patriarchal agenda that devalues the health and autonomy of women and girls. #ItsStillNWGHAAD

Join CHLP for our next Abolition for Our People webinar on Tuesday, March 10. It will focus on restorative and transformative justice practices by introducing these frameworks and collaborating on practical ways to use them in our HIV justice work. Register: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/events/aboli...

Thank you @eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org for valuing and supporting our HIV decriminalization work (and all of our liberatory justice work!) today on #HINACDay and every day.

February 27 is National HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. The Center for HIV Law and Policy released a new statement highlighting how HIV criminalization laws intersect with immigration enforcement and policing — and the broader public health impact. positivelyaware.com/hinac-day-2026

February 27 is National HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. The Center for HIV Law and Policy released a new statement highlighting how HIV criminalization laws intersect with immigration enforcement and policing — and the broader public health impact. positivelyaware.com/hinac-day-2026

Tomorrow, Feb 2/28, is HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. In >30 states, people are being imprisoned due to their HIV status w/ increasing charges or punishments because the person has HIV. Black men are disproportionately impacted by HIV crim laws - an example of anti-Black structural homophobia.

In this #HINAC Day statement, CHLP calls to abolish ICE and repeal HIV criminalization laws. Our task is to defend our dignity and bodily autonomy and, regardless of country of origin or health status, to keep seeing the humanity in each other. Read it here: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/being-h...

CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal represented CHLP’s #Team2Dream at the State of the South, a convening co-hosted by Black South Rising and CHLP funder Gilead COMPASS Initiative in Houston last week. #StateoftheSouth #HIVAdvocates #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSouthRising

Fourth circuit reinstates a discriminatory policy rooted in outdated assumptions about HIV rather than current medical evidence. The decision reverses an earlier ruling that invalidated the ban on enlistment by PLHIV in the U.S. military, the nation's largest employer.

At the AIDS United PPC meeting in Washington DC #Team2Dream's Jada Hicks & Amir Sadeghi joined a talk w Omar Martínez González, AIDS Foundation Chicago. And Amir, w Ahmed Mohamed, Housing Works & Somya Sharma-Holt and Bishar Jenkins, AIDS United, met with senators and representatives on the Hill.

CHLP’s new initiative, Radical Roots: HBCUs for Justice, builds knowledge around HIV crim across the South. This #BlackHistoryMonth, Radical Roots builds on the tradition of the Black organizers, advocates & PLHIV who built the HIV justice movement. More: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/chlps-r...

Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges #NBHAAD. We’re observing this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of a white supremacist agenda that denies Black history and devalues Black lives. It is still National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

HIV criminalization isn’t about public health—it’s about policing, surveillance, and punishment. Black communities are targeted at every turn. Abolition is not abstract for us. It’s necessary. This report names why. Thanks @williamsinstitute.bsky.social for this research. #Abolition #NBHAAD

CHLP's #Team2Dream was just in Washington, DC, to attend and present at the National LGBTQ+ Task Force's annual Creating Change conference. PJP staffers Jada Hicks, Sean McCormick, and Kytara Epps took CHLP’s Abolition for Our People talks on the road and more. #HIVAdvocates #AbolitionOnTheRoad

For #NBHAAD, PJP Partners Group affirms a truth named by Black leaders: the inequitable distribution of public health resources is a matter of life & death. We demand HIV medical, social justice & public health sectors name & disrupt the anti-Blackness & inequality at the heart of our HIV response.

CHLP is hiring paid summer law student interns! Work on creative advocacy, legal & policy research, and community-centered health law reform. We use a Black feminist, queer lens to challenge discrimination impacting people living with HIV. Learn more & apply: hivlawandpolicy.org/about/intern...

Tomorrow, CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal joins Black South Rising for this #NBHAAD webinar on the state of Black health in the South. Register at lnkd.in/e88AwGzX #HIVAdvocates #BlackHealth

Today the House begins its consideration of the FY26 spending package w funding for domestic & global HIV programs. Join #SaveHIVFunding & urge your reps to 1. Fully fund access to health care and supports for PLHIV and 2. Reject DHS funding. savehivfunding.org/action-alert...

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we refuse to let Black history be erased. Trump / MAGA attack Black history, truth-telling institutions, and the legacy of the Civil Rights era to protect racial hierarchy and state violence. This is about power—about whose lives and stories are allowed to matter.

CHLP’s #Team2Dream joined NY STI Decrim Coalition for Advocacy Day in Albany to advocate for REPEAL STI Discrimination Act with Aliya Jessa & Christine Khaikin (LAC) Amir Sadeghi (CHLP) Nephy Smith (Lambda Legal) Bernadette Rabuy (NYCLU) Elmer Flores (NEW Pride Agenda) Megan French-Marcelin (LAC).

Do what you can. ❤️‍🩹Take care of yourself. 🫂Take care of each other. ☎️Call 5calls.org 🧑‍💻Write democracy.io#!/thanks 🚫Boycott ICE: www.boycottcitizens.org/ice ✊Support MN: www.standwithminnesota.com

A 5-year-old detained after preschool. Multiple people shot and killed by federal immigration agents. U.S. citizens arrested by masked officers. Our elected officials have the power to reign in this lawless cruelty — they must use it.

Dr. King challenged us all to demand more from those in power. In a moment when cruelty is normalized and state violence is justified, this vision of leadership is radical and necessary. At CHLP, we remain committed to abolitionist principles that center care, dignity, and accountability over harm.

Don't miss CHLP's #Team2Dream in Washington, DC next week to attend and present at the National LGBTQ+ Task Force's annual Creating Change conference. More info on our presentations: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/events/natio... #Team2Dream #HIVAdvocates #CreatingChange

Join EPIC on Wednesday, January 21 at 2 pm ET for a discussion on how surveillance and weak privacy laws threaten health equity and what we can do to build a more privacy-protective future. Register now: epic.org/beyond-hipaa-event

New Abolition for Our People webinar on Jan 29. Join CHLP to unpack public health, data privacy & state violence, and how we build a public health system rooted in care, not punishment. With @hiporg.bsky.social, @sarageoghegan.bsky.social, @epic.org + more. www.hivlawandpolicy.org/events/aboli...