While incredible, this isn’t about one state; it’s about building a national movement. With similar bills emerging across the country, Equality Federation is creating a roadmap to help other states take on HIV decriminalization and other public health policies impacting our communities living with HIV.
Victories like this don’t happen overnight. This work takes resources, strategy, partnership, and sustainable support to shift the narrative and stigma, not just in the legislature but in our own communities.
That’s why we doubled our investment to advance public health and HIV decriminalization efforts financially to our partners and internally to grow our public health policy department. We’re committed to ensuring this work is successful, and we’re grateful to many of our partners, including ViiV Healthcare, Center for HIV Law & Policy, Gilead Sciences, MERCK, and the US People Living With HIV Caucus, for their support.
We know that change is possible, because we’re seeing it happen each day. Together we can continue to make these wins the norm, not the exception.
Thank you for being a part of history,
