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    With the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section, addressing the human rights dimensions of public health policy and practice

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    2022 HIV Law & Practice Conference

    The HIV/AIDS Impact Project is excited to announce the return of the biennial HIV/AIDS Law & Practice Conference! We met in New Orleans on May 10-11, 2022, for informative CLE workshops, dialogue, and a luncheon honoring recipients of the Alexander Forger Awards for Sustained Excellence in HIV Legal and Policy Advocacy. Program information is available on the Conference webpage.

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    HIV/AIDS at 40: Perspectives on the Struggle

    In observance of World AIDS Day, this webinar offers a retrospective on the legal, social, and medical struggles and successes associated with HIV/AIDS over the last 40 years. These intersectional perspectives merged to form a new civil rights movement almost overnight, one that continues to this day.

    Fauci Receives Roosevelt Prize

    Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Advancing the Human Right to Health

    The Center is pleased to honor Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for his work in advancing the human right to health in the United States and around the globe, beginning with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, through the Ebola crisis and, today, the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    ABA announces HIV Legal Services Fund grantees

    Nine grantees have been selected for funding through the HIV Legal Services Fund as part of the Health & Human Rights Initiative run jointly by the Center for Human Rights and Civil Rights and Social Justice Section.

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    Celebrating World AIDS Day: A Roundtable Discussion of Current and Emerging Legal and Policy Issues

    December 1, 2020 | Webinar

    As the 40th anniversary of the first AIDS cases in the US approaches next year (June 2021), HIV lawyers and policy advocates discuss the progress achieved in protecting the rights of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, where those rights may be threatened today, and how best to secure them for the future.

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