CHLP was named one of the 34 organizations selected to receive a total of $3 million in funding from the Gilead COMPASS Initiative as part of its 2024 Transformative Grant awards.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it reached an agreement with the Shelby County, Tennessee, District Attorney General’s Office under which the county will stop prosecuting people living with HIV using Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution law.
A coalition of local and national HIV, LGBTQ, and civil liberties advocates speak out against S7809, a bill to amend provisions of New York’s HIV testing law that would fundamentally change how patients in New York are notified about HIV testing by removing the provision for affirmative informed consent.
A new law in Tennessee removes aggravated prostitution as a registerable violent sexual offense, a significant victory for people living with HIV who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, allowing them to petition for removal from the sex offense registry.
In March, CHLP Staff Attorneys Jada Hicks, Sean McCormick, and Kae Greenberg met with the new Criminalization and Discrimination Working Group in the Stigma and Disparities Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal and Staff Attorney Kae Greenberg attended the American Society on Aging's 70th annual On Aging conference last week in San Francisco.
This article by Ace Robinson in TheBody.com discusses our recent HIPAA webinar about how people's health information is shared, and what the implications are for PLHIV in a context of HIV surveillance and criminalization.
