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WRI 2024 Issue Brief: Implications of Federal and State Policy on HIV Research and Services for Women Living with and Vulnerable to HIV

September 15, 2024
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On September 12, 2024, the Women's Research Initiative (WRI) published an WRI 2024 Issue Brief: "Implications of Federal and State Policy on HIV Research and Services for Women Living with and Vulnerable to HIV", which reported on The Well Project’s 2024 Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS Meeting (March 21-24, 2024). 

The meeting focused on "The Role of Policy in Access to HIV Research and Services Among Women Living with and Vulnerable to HIV". It also sought to examine the ways that law and policy affect health outcomes for women living with and vulnerable to HIV. 

While HIV research and service provision in the US have always been affected by the policy environment, recent legal and policy changes are poised to have a particularly negative impact on women living with and vulnerable to HIV. 

This WRI convening brought together 35 multidisciplinary, multisectoral key stakeholders (see below) to address critical aspects and potential implications for women living with and vulnerable to HIV of laws and policies related to HIV criminalization; abortion; gender-affirming care; and affirmative action/diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming – and to make recommendations for mitigating their injurious effects.

View photos from WRI 2024.
 

WRI 2024 Meeting Participants

Allison Agwu, MD, ScM
Johns Hopkins University

Nancie Archin, PhD*
University of North Carolina

Judith Auerbach, PhD*
University of California San Francisco

Dawn Averitt*
The Well Project and WRI

Jacqueline Ayers, JD
Planned Parenthood

Kellan Baker, PhD, MPH, MA
Whitman Walker

Cecilia Chung
Transgender Law Center

Jenna Conley
The Well Project

Lindsey Dawson, MPP
KFF

Karine Dubé, DrPH
UCSD School of Medicine

Nada Fadul, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Olivia G. Ford
The Well Project

Waru Gichane, PhD, MSPH
University of California San Francisco

Kaye Hayes, MPA
Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy

Connie Johnson, MA
Growing into Greatness

Jennifer Kates, PhD*
Kaiser Family Foundation

Kamaria Laffrey
The Sero Project

Aryah Lester
Transgender Strategy Center

Tiommi Luckett, AA
Transgender Law Center

Leslie Marshall
NIH Office of AIDS Research

Krista Martel
The Well Project

Marnina Miller, AA
PWN-USA

S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal, JD
Center for HIV Law and Policy

Amaya Perez-Brumer, PhD
University of Toronto

Bridgette Picou, LVN
The Well Project

Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C
University of North Carolina

Catalina Ramirez, MPH, MHA
Universty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Laramie Smith, PhD
University of California San Diego

Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH
Harvard Kennedy School

Celeste Watkins-Hayes
University of Michigan

Andrea Weddle, MSW*
HIV Medicine Association

Helen Zimba, BS
The Afiya Center

  
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The_Well_Project_WRI_2024_Issue_Brief_Final.pdf (3.61 MB)
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