By Delia Addo-Yobo Friday, December 17th marks the 18th anniversary of the first International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day to honor victims of violence and to highlight the sex and gender bias that makes that violence possible. …

by Amir Sadeghi, National Policy and Partner Strategist, CHLP — On Sunday, June 27, 2021, many of us working at the intersections of public health, sexual health, and systems change will recognize National HIV Testing Day. Traditionally, National HIV Testing Day has been an opportunity to raise awareness about and increase access to HIV testing and eliminate late HIV diagnoses…

By Anne Kelsey Staff Attorney, CHLP Since its inception, the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has led the way in developing new and creative advocacy paths to fight laws and policies that criminalize people living with HIV. …

by Anne Kelsey, CHLP Staff Attorney December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day on which the sex worker community remembers victims of violence over the past year and calls attention to the social stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of sex work that have contributed…

by Marguerite Schauer, Interim Staff Attorney, Center for HIV Law and Policy The latest in a series of reports on HIV criminal laws from the Williams Institute provides a thorough picture of how Missouri’s laws are being enforced, analyzing arrest and conviction data from 1990 through 2019. All of the…

by Anne Kelsey Interim Staff Attorney, The Center for HIV Law and Policy Discrimination against people living with HIV is mostly based on stigma and significant ignorance rather than current knowledge about the routes, actual risks and current treatment realities of HIV transmission. Treating a person living with HIV as…

by Jacob Schneider On Monday, April 6, news reports appeared of a 16-year-old who tested positive for COVID-19 in a juvenile temporary detention center. While the arrival of COVID-19 to juvenile detentions might have been predicted by anyone with a passing knowledge of the intersection of public health and our…

At a time when federal and state policies single out people living with HIV for punishment, is this way of identifying sexual networks a good idea? by Jacob Schneider, CHLP Staff Attorney When the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced in 2017 that it would be requiring all states funded…

by Amir Sadeghi Today is National HIV Testing Day, an opportunity to raise awareness about HIV testing opportunities with the goal of making testing routine and turning late HIV diagnoses into a thing of the past. …