"You Care About ENDING HIV Criminalization, You Just Don't Know It Yet"
In recognition of HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day, we need the history and harm behind these dehumanizing laws to stop disenfranchising people living with HIV.
Since 2022, we have had over 75 organizations and over 100 individuals sign on to show that they care about ending HIV criminalization! Are you on the list? With your support and sign-on, you are committing to:
Educating about HIV criminalization in communities impacted beyond the courtroom and even after reform measures are made (workshops and sessions on The Sero Project's HIV Is Not A Crime Training Academy YouTube Channel can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-YJqpmNYWf60VRHfv9nOA)
Amplifying the voices of PLHIV advocates who are being equipped to learn how their state laws are impacting them through the Health Not Prisons Advocate funding project, Sero Project Justice Institute, and HIV Is Not A Crime Training Academy
Supporting the survivors of criminalization by sharing stories of survivors through Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation True (Not) Crime series
Uplifting the federal policy agenda Demanding Better: An HIV Federal Policy Agenda by People Living with HIV
Asking your state legislator to co-sponsor the REPEAL Act
Sharing sign on to your networks and saying HIV Is Not A Crime!
Use our social media hashtags #HIVIsNotACrime and #HINACDay
If you have a related event planned and would like that shared, please submit your event here:
https://bit.ly/HINACDayEvents - we want to uplift this on our
awareness day Facebook page!
With your support in these things combined, the momentum is greater, the impact is more meaningful and the efforts more visible towards the change we have all been waiting for.
Thank you for being a part of the movement! Unifying in this method makes the crucial point that communities of PLHIV and allies speak in a unified voice!