CHLP and the Positive Justice Project Partners with PWN-Philly for a Community Roundtable on HIV Criminalization - November 19, 2012

On Monday, November 19th, 2012 the Positive Women's Network -- Philadelphia Chapter hosted a Positive Justice Project Community Roundtable on HIV Criminalization at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia, PA from 3 to 6:30 pm. The event included presentations by PJP members: Robert Suttle (Sero Project), Waheedah Shabbaz-El (Positive Womens Network), Catherine Hanssens (Center for HIV Law and Policy), Ronda Goldfein (Law Project of Pennsylvania), Rashida Richardson (Center for HIV Law and Policy) and a lawyer from the public defenders office. By the end of the event and much discussion, people left enraged and engaged -- ready to get involved in local advocacy against the cruelty and injustice of treating HIV as evidence of a crime.