Two people standing outside in front of a crowd at the NYC AIDS memorial, one holding a sign that reads "Trump HIV Policy: Dig more graves."
At the NYC AIDS Memorial on Saturday, CHLP Comms Manager D. Reznik and PWN Policy Director Kelly Flannery were in attendance at the ACT UP 39th anniversary rally to protest the Trump administration’s slashing of HIV/AIDS budgets while increasing budgets for ICE and the war on Iran. #Team2Dream
Pictured are law student Ian Anderson, Mandisa, Clinical Teaching Fellow Patrick Lin, Amir, SHIC Director Christopher Morten, and law student Marina Tian.
#MovementLawyering #SHICClinic #HIVAdvocates
Six people standing outside side by side in front of a brick archway with a plaque reading NYU School of Law.
CHLP's S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal and Amir Sadeghi met with the Science, Health, and Information Clinic (SHIC) at the NYU School of Law to speak with clinic students about movement lawyering and CHLP’s work advancing an abolitionist politic within the broader HIV justice advocacy ecosystem. #Team2Dream
Light purple background with beige, dark purple and red surveillance icons of eyeballs, hands, binary code floating around a black silhouette of a human holding a tablet. At the top, “HIV BASIC: Bodily Autonomy, Surveillance & Informed Consent” is in white block type in red boxes. Black type describes the consensus statement and a QR code and the words “Sign the Statement” is at the bottom in white block type in a purple box. White logo block at the bottom with PWN-USA, TLC, HJN, CHLP and SERO logos.
We are HIV BASIC, a growing movement grounded in shared values of MIPA, bodily autonomy, informed consent & freedom from criminalization. Read our statement, if you agree, you might just be BASIC like us. Endorse the Consensus Statement at tinyurl.com/hiv-basic
@pwnusa.bsky.social @hivjustice.net
This is a stopgap measure in effect through June 30 as lawmakers work toward a new state budget for the 2026–27 fiscal year.
positivelyaware.com/florida-adap-temporary-funding
Illustrated cover in teal, purple, and yellow showing five stylized healthcare workers gathered around a central figure holding papers, with bold text reading “When Healing Becomes Resistance: Interrupting HIV Criminalization.”
Colorful comic panels show a woman speaking with a public defender, appearing distressed as she discusses a plea deal; scenes include a courtroom and paperwork, with visual emphasis on pressure, confusion, and legal consequences.
Purple-toned illustration with multiple disembodied eyes watching a lone figure walking, creating a sense of constant surveillance, isolation, and restriction.
Comic-style panels depict a woman on the phone receiving instructions for the sex offense registry, followed by scenes of separation from family and a final image of a crowd holding a banner reading “HIV is not a crime.”
New storytelling zine from Beyond Do No Harm highlights HIV criminalization with CHLP's Jada Hicks and TN advocate Lashanda Salinas. It pairs lived experience + legal insight—connecting personal harm to systemic stigma and the power of community-led advocacy. www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/beyond-...
5 people standing in front of AIDS Watch step and repeat banner holding printed HIV BASIC postcards.
HIV BASIC coalition members were out in force at AIDS Watch this week in Washington DC, spreading the word about the HIV BASIC Consensus Statement. Join us in demanding public health respect privacy, consent, and bodily autonomy. More: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resources/co...
@pwnusa.bsky.social
Black graphic with a large red ribbon and white block all caps letters reading “It is still National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day” with white CHLP logo and a red band at the top that reads “#NNHAAD will not be erased.”
Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We are observing this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of an agenda that continues to erase Indigenous people and culture. #ItsStillNNHAAD
Clinician Jeffrey Birnbaum says it is past time for New York state to decriminalize STIs, and we agree! Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Peoples-Stokes: Call the REPEAL STI Discrimination Act (A.733A) for a vote. Read the Albany Times Union op-ed: bit.ly/4sTFQsn
@nyclu.org @lambdalegal.org
"Throughout the event, an updated version of the classic ACT UP 'Silence=Death' logo hung on a large banner with the new phrase 'Cuts=Death.' Throughout the event, call-and-response chants drilled in messages like 'Cuts kill, funding saves.'" #SaveHIVFunding
Florida is not the only state cutting access to HIV medications. It is a "man-made public health crisis" that was then and is now a reflection of whose lives those in power value and whose they do not.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...
Black graphic with a large red ribbon and white block all caps letters reading “It is still National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day” with white CHLP logo and a red band at the top that reads “#NWGHAAD will not be erased.”
Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We observe this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of a patriarchal agenda that devalues the health and autonomy of women and girls. #ItsStillNWGHAAD
Pink and yellow gradient background with the word ABOLITION surrounded by colorful flowers, the event details in dark blue type and three presenter headshots, a dark blue band at the bottom has a QR code and the CHLP logo.
Join CHLP for our next Abolition for Our People webinar on Tuesday, March 10. It will focus on restorative and transformative justice practices by introducing these frameworks and collaborating on practical ways to use them in our HIV justice work. Register: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/events/aboli...
Thank you @eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org for valuing and supporting our HIV decriminalization work (and all of our liberatory justice work!) today on #HINACDay and every day.
February 27 is National HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. The Center for HIV Law and Policy released a new statement highlighting how HIV criminalization laws intersect with immigration enforcement and policing — and the broader public health impact.
positivelyaware.com/hinac-day-2026
February 27 is National HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. The Center for HIV Law and Policy released a new statement highlighting how HIV criminalization laws intersect with immigration enforcement and policing — and the broader public health impact.
positivelyaware.com/hinac-day-2026
Circular logo reading “HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day.” The design features a red awareness ribbon flowing across bold black letters “HIV” inside a black ring. On the right side, a silhouetted figure with raised arms appears in a gesture of empowerment or advocacy. The color scheme is red, black, and white.
Tomorrow, Feb 2/28, is HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day.
In >30 states, people are being imprisoned due to their HIV status w/ increasing charges or punishments because the person has HIV.
Black men are disproportionately impacted by HIV crim laws - an example of anti-Black structural homophobia.
In this #HINAC Day statement, CHLP calls to abolish ICE and repeal HIV criminalization laws. Our task is to defend our dignity and bodily autonomy and, regardless of country of origin or health status, to keep seeing the humanity in each other. Read it here: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/being-h...
A large group of people standing in front of a colorful mural.
CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal represented CHLP’s #Team2Dream at the State of the South, a convening co-hosted by Black South Rising and CHLP funder Gilead COMPASS Initiative in Houston last week.
#StateoftheSouth #HIVAdvocates #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSouthRising
Fourth circuit reinstates a discriminatory policy rooted in outdated assumptions about HIV rather than current medical evidence. The decision reverses an earlier ruling that invalidated the ban on enlistment by PLHIV in the U.S. military, the nation's largest employer.
Three people standing in front of a colorful wall.
Four people standing outside Sen. Schumer's office in the Senate building.
At the AIDS United PPC meeting in Washington DC #Team2Dream's Jada Hicks & Amir Sadeghi joined a talk w Omar Martínez González, AIDS Foundation Chicago. And Amir, w Ahmed Mohamed, Housing Works & Somya Sharma-Holt and Bishar Jenkins, AIDS United, met with senators and representatives on the Hill.
CHLP’s new initiative, Radical Roots: HBCUs for Justice, builds knowledge around HIV crim across the South. This #BlackHistoryMonth, Radical Roots builds on the tradition of the Black organizers, advocates & PLHIV who built the HIV justice movement. More: www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/chlps-r...
Under Trump/MAGA control, our federal government no longer acknowledges #NBHAAD. We’re observing this day under protest because we refuse to let it be erased in pursuit of a white supremacist agenda that denies Black history and devalues Black lives. It is still National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
HIV criminalization isn’t about public health—it’s about policing, surveillance, and punishment. Black communities are targeted at every turn. Abolition is not abstract for us. It’s necessary. This report names why. Thanks @williamsinstitute.bsky.social for this research. #Abolition #NBHAAD
4: Sean, Kamaria Laffrey w SERO Project, Faith Hudson, Liam Lindsay, and Kara Ingelhart w Northwestern Law Bluhm Legal Clinic, LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic in HIV and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
3: Phillip Westry w @freestatejustice.bsky.social, Nathan Cisneros w @williamsinstitute.bsky.social, Jada, Ronnie Taylor w FreeState Justice, and Michael Elizabeth w @equalityfed.bsky.social, in Victory: How our Successful Decriminalization of PLHIV in Maryland can Free All of Us.
1: Kytara, Sean, and Jada enjoy a PJP Team lunch!
2: Kytara, Jada, and Nayimah Sanchez, The Bernadine Casseus Transgender Laureate, in Abolitionists Imagining a Brighter Future for TLGBQ+ PLAHIV.
CHLP's #Team2Dream was just in Washington, DC, to attend and present at the National LGBTQ+ Task Force's annual Creating Change conference. PJP staffers Jada Hicks, Sean McCormick, and Kytara Epps took CHLP’s Abolition for Our People talks on the road and more.
#HIVAdvocates #AbolitionOnTheRoad
For #NBHAAD, PJP Partners Group affirms a truth named by Black leaders: the inequitable distribution of public health resources is a matter of life & death. We demand HIV medical, social justice & public health sectors name & disrupt the anti-Blackness & inequality at the heart of our HIV response.
CHLP is hiring paid summer law student interns! Work on creative advocacy, legal & policy research, and community-centered health law reform. We use a Black feminist, queer lens to challenge discrimination impacting people living with HIV. Learn more & apply: hivlawandpolicy.org/about/intern...