HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, a day when communities will mobilize with a collective voice to stand in solidarity to overcome HIV criminalization.
In launching this day, I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with the Sero Project and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
They share in the unapologetic commitment to build momentum in equipping advocates locally and nationally to create strategies that shift mindsets and change these laws.
We cannot end the epidemic of HIV unless these laws are reformed and ultimately repealed.As a product of abstinence-only education, I was pregnant at 19, then diagnosed with HIV at 21; in 2003, I learned the hard way about stigma and discrimination.