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May 6, 2021

CHLP Submits Comments on HHS Proposed Change to HIPAA Privacy Rule (2021)

On May 6, 2021, CHLP submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed changed to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The comments outline our opposition to provisions that weaken the Privacy Rule and make it easier to share personal health care information with law enforcement.
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April 22, 2021

News Conference: Advocates Celebrate A3864 and Call for Sexual Health Literacy for Medical Professionals (2021)

Advocates and experts from New York and around the country joined Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and CHLP to rally behind A3864, her bill to remedy medical mistrust and a serious gap in continuing medical education requirements for licensed medical professionals.
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April 21, 2021

Media Advisory: Health Care, Public Health, HIV Prevention and LGBTQ Leaders Call for Sexual Health Literacy Training (2021)

On Thursday, New York state and national organizations and experts will join Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal to rally behind her bill, A3864, to remedy a serious gap in continuing medical education requirements for licensed medical professionals.
April 16, 2021

CHLP joins Fenway Institute in Comments Addressing Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Patients (2021)

CHLP joined the Fenway Institute in comments to HHS as part of the request for public comments on the Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability.
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March 17, 2021

Op-Ed: Use science, not stigma, to determine the next steps for Nushawn Williams (2021)

CHLP's Anne Kelsey and Dr. William M. Valenti authored this op-ed in Syracuse.com on Nushawn Williams and how science, not stigma, should guide the next steps in his case.
December 17, 2020

Events for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (2020)

December 11, 2020

CHLP Moderates World AIDS Day Panel on the Role of Sexual Health Literacy in Ending the Epidemic for NYS ETE Summit (2020)

CHLP's Amir Sadeghi moderates a World AIDS Day panel for the NYS Department of Health's Ending the Epidemic (ETE) Summit.
December 3, 2020

Prosecutor, Criminal Defense Lawyer, and Public Health Law Organizations Call for Criminal Legal and Detention Systems as COVID-19 Vaccination Priority (2020)

CHLP, NACDL, and the APA released a joint statement that recognizes the essential nature of the criminal legal system to society, and calls on those within that system, including all individuals living and working in the nation’s jails, prisons, and other detention facilities, to be prioritized in the COVID-19 vaccination process.
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November 30, 2020

CHLP Focuses on Activism and Inclusion for World AIDS Day 2020

Saluting World AIDS Day with new state criminal legal reform fact sheets, a video on the meaningful inclusion of people living with HIV, and decriminalization advocacy at the Smithsonian Institution and New York’s Ending the Epidemic Summit
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November 12, 2020

CHLP Brief Calls out Homophobic Bias in Case of Gay Man Unjustly Designated a “Sexually Violent Predator” (2020)

CHLP filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Virginia in support of Galen Baughman, a young gay man at risk of indefinite civil confinement due to an unjust designation as a “sexually violent predator”. The brief describes the deep homophobic bias embedded in the civil commitment assessment process and in the drive to confine him in the absence of credible evidence.