CHLP Publications

Trans Equity Consulting and CHLP created a series of one-page fact sheets in both English and Spanish to explain the issues and identities that intersect with HIV criminalization.

CHLP and PrEP in Black America, joined Afiya Center, Women with a Vision, SisterLove, BlaqOut, and Equality Federation in filing an amicus brief in Braidwood v. Kennedy (previously Braidwood v. Becerra) on appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court.

For more than a decade CHLP has produced an HIV criminalization map that portrays the variety and prevalence of laws used to prosecute and punish PLHIV. This new release of the maps represents a substantial update resulting from a comprehensive research process and updated methodology based on CHLP’s Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice.

These comments were submitted in response to the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) draft "Recommendations for HIV Screenings in Clinical Settings.”

In response to the recent Request for Information for a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), CHLP submitted responses that emphasized the importance of recognizing the scope and impact of HIV criminalization and other nonconsensual or punitive policy and legal approaches.

CHLP authored this in-depth look at the practice of Molecular HIV Surveillance (MHS) and explains its framework, goals, and concerns. MHS is a form of public health surveillance utilized by public health officials to address gaps in HIV treatment and prevention.

CHLP authored this model policy to provide examples of language that health departments and healthcare facilities can adopt to promote public health through the protection of private health information.

The 2023 CHLP Impact Report – the first-of-its-kind for CHLP – highlights our work to create change and advance our mission throughout 2023, our first year under the leadership of Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal.

On October 15, 2024, CHLP provided analysis and suggestions to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding proposed changes to the National Organ Transplant Act, as amended by the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act. 

By the year 2030, 70% of people living with HIV are projected to be over the age of 50, but the country’s social services and healthcare infrastructure are not prepared to address their needs.

Introduced in the 2024 legislative session, House Bill 3098 (HB 3098) would have dramatically increased the number of health conditions criminalized under Oklahoma law.

This resource was developed by CHLP with partners at HEAT, Lambda Legal and the Legal Action Center as part of a campaign against changes to New York State law that would fundamentally change how patients are notified about HIV testing by removing the provision for affirmative informed consent.