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CHLP Co-Director Allison Nichol was awarded the 2016 Alexander Forger Award from the American Bar Association's AIDS Coordinating Committee. She accepted the award at the Committee's HIV/AIDS Law & Practice Conference on February 4 in San Diego. She is being recognized for her decades-long commitment to advancing the rights of people living with HIV.

The 2016 elections will shape the work of many HIV prevention policy advocates as they continue to push for broader access to comprehensive services for all priority populations.

C. Virginia Fields of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS blogs on ‪#HIV stigma‬ and a recent New York Times op-ed linking mass incarceration and ‪‎HIV‬ rates.

CHLP announced a new partnership with the Human Rights Campaign and the National Center for Lesbian Rights to raise awareness about the harms of HIV criminal laws. The centerpiece of the joint campaign is a video about what these laws do, whom they target, and how they cause harm without any perceptible benefit.