4/8/2022 6:38am Centering System-Affected Youth in National Dialogues about Sexual Health and LGBTQ+ Rights: CHLP on National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day CHLP New CHLP blog for National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) points out the importance of centering system-affected youth in national dialogues about sexual health and LGBTQ+ rights. Read more ..read more

12/17/2021 11:58am Ending Criminalization Means Standing Up for Sex Workers Delia Addo-Yobo Staff Attorney On International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, the struggle to end criminalization based on identity and health/disability-related bias is far from over. To secure real justice for those who are crushed by the horrific inequities of the criminal legal system, we need to be intentional about keeping the bigger picture in view and centering the concrete needs of the most marginalized, the most criminalized, and the most unheard. Read more ..read more

9/2/2021 1:50pm Federal Funding of Law Enforcement: A Vehicle for Transformative Change? Catherine Hanssens Founding Executive Director Might federal law enforcement grant programs be a vehicle for ending the criminalization of HIV? Read more ..read more

4/13/2021 3:11pm The Power of the ADA to Challenge HIV Criminal Laws (2021) Anne Kelsey Staff Attorney, CHLP How advocates can develop legal challenges to state HIV criminalization laws using the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Read more ..read more

6/25/2021 1:47pm Demanding Accountability on National HIV Testing Day Amir Sadeghi National Policy and Partner Strategist On National HIV Testing Day, we must hold public health professionals and agencies accountable -- by honoring principles of disability and racial justice, and protecting medical privacy and bodily autonomy, we improve the public’s health. Read more ..read more

4/13/2021 3:11pm The Power of the ADA to Challenge HIV Criminal Laws Anne Kelsey Staff Attorney, CHLP How advocates can develop legal challenges to state HIV criminalization laws using the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Read more ..read more

12/17/2020 10:29am On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, CHLP Calls for An End to Laws that Criminalize Sex Work and HIV Anne Kelsey CHLP Staff Attorney On December 17th, #IDEVASW, CHLP joins the sex work community’s fight to end violence, and challenges the violence and harm that criminalization of both health status and consensual victimless conduct cause to sex workers. Read more ..read more

8/27/2020 12:10pm Key Takeaways for Reform from the Williams Institute Report on HIV Criminalization in Missouri Marguerite Schauer CHLP Interim Staff Attorney A look at the key takeaways in the most recent Williams Institute report on HIV criminalization in Missouri in this blog by CHLP Interim Staff Attorney Marguerite Schauer. Read more ..read more

7/31/2020 10:27am July marks the 30th Anniversary of the ADA. What does that mean for PLHIV? Anne Kelsey Interim Staff Attorney The ADA’s 30th birthday makes it a good time for a check-in in the blog by Interim Staff Attorney Anne Kelsey. Read more ..read more

5/4/2020 11:52am COVID-19 Newly Illustrates the Urgent Need to Reform Our Juvenile Detention and Child Welfare Systems Jacob Schneider CHLP Staff Attorney CHLP Staff Attorney Jacob Schneider on how the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the urgent need to reform juvenile justice for the tens of thousands of young people involved in our juvenile justice and child protective system. Read more ..read more