By Bridgette Picou, LVN HIV criminalization is an amalgamation of a lot of things. It is ignorance overlaid with fear and underpinned by the need to exert power over the same people who are being feared. The parochialism of HIV—and therefore the outlawing of things otherwise considered normal and healthy outside the context of HIV—is infuriating. Much of what I feel about criminalization is tied to my intersecting identities. My Blackness is always a reminder of the potential

By Steven Drew Auerbach, Co-Executive Director/COO HARP-PS Let’s cut to the chase: World AIDS Day—launched on December 1, 1988—wasn’t born from some kumbaya moment. It came from two World Health Organization public information officers, James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, and the visionary Dr. Jonathan Mann. Their goal? Carve out a date, December 1, that’d get airtime long after U.S. elections and before holiday TV specials drown everything else out [1] . Remember, this was 1988

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