CHLP, Lambda Legal, PrEP4All, Harvard Law’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI), and GLAAD, today released statements following oral arguments in the Braidwood case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court this morning.
At 10:00am ET today, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood. The case is an attack on the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that require private insurers to cover preventative care with no co-pay or cost sharing for a range of services from PrEP to cancer screenings. The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether the method used to determine which preventative care services must be covered is unconstitutional.
On March 19, the governor of North Dakota signed bipartisan House Bill 1217 into law, making North Dakota the fourth state to fully repeal its HIV criminal offense.
CHLP emphatically condemns the decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to dramatically restructure HHS, eliminating tens of thousands of necessary jobs and consolidating several departments.
"A year after the Biden administration laid a blueprint for the federal government to take aim at state laws that criminalize the transmission of HIV, activists say that with the Trump administration, they’ve lost a crucial ally in challenging these outdated, racist, and homophobic laws."
CHLP and PrEP in Black America are joined by Afiya Center, Women with a Vision, SisterLove, BlaqOut, and Equality Federation in filing this amicus brief in Braidwood v Kennedy (previously Braidwood v Becerra) on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court to take a stand for continued access to preventative health care and to protect the Black and brown lives that will be lost should this access be overturned.
Last night CHLP proudly celebrated 20 years of making positive justice possible at a 20th anniversary reception hosted by the Fund for the City of New York. The evening reception was attended by CHLP staff, advisory board, event host committee, friends, and fellow advocates.
POZ Magazine featured a round-up of events in a "big week for HIV criminalization" that highlights CHLP's recent updates to its U.S. HIV criminalization maps, with a webinar on February 26 to explain the revisions and new features.
