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The National HIV/AIDS Partnership has recognized CHLP Executive Director Catherine Hanssens with a Red Ribbon Leadership Award for Policy. In a ceremony on December 1, World AIDS Day, Hanssens was among the recipients honored for superlative leadership
Drafted by a coalition of advocates to inform those working on expanded HIV testing proposals, this set of basic principles is a tool to help stimulate conversations, planning, and community input.
On the advent of World AIDS Day, CHLP emphasized that rights violations that impede the response to the AIDS epidemic globally are also a critical problem in the United States.

Kaplan, formerly a staff attorney fellow with the ACLU and a law clerk for Judge Julio M.

On May 18 and 19, CHLP staff attorney Margo Kaplan was a presenter at the Voices 2008 Conference of the AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families.
CHLP Executive Director Catherine Hanssens represented CHLP on four separate topics at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 3-8, 2008.
Proving its command of both substance and style, CHLP is unveiling the first of a series of upgrades to its website.

Following consultation with individuals familiar with the healthcare and HIV/AIDS-related needs of incarcerated populations, the Center for HIV Law and Policy, Lambda Legal, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago drafted a letter to CDC regarding its draft implementation guidance for HIV testing expansion in correctional settings.