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transmission of HIV, activists say that with the Trump administration, they’ve lost a crucial ally in challenging these outdated, racist, and homophobic laws."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.
CHLP’s Positive Justice Project (PJP) announces the update of a signature resource that captures the threat to our communities posed by HIV criminalization laws across the country. Mapping HIV Criminalization Laws in the U.S. is designed to meet the needs of people living with and deeply affected by HIV, people advocating for reform of these laws and policies, and decision-makers implementing them.
CHLP wrote a letter to The Ethicist regarding a subscriber's email on February 3, 2025, with a letter entitled “Good in Bed: The Ethicist Answers Your Sex Questions, Part 2: I'm HIV Positive but Undetectable, Do Casual Partners Need to Know?" that contained dangerous information about HIV non-disclosure.
