This Thursday, January 8th, Ayako Miyashita of The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law will present “HIV Criminalization: Law, Policy, and Modernization”. The Los Angeles County Commission on HIV and the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services invite you to attend.

The presentation will help attendees gain a better understanding of the legal framework for HIV criminalization, policy considerations for these laws, and what local leaders are doing to make a change in California.

Immediately following the presentation will be a discussion with Aaron Fox from LA LGBT Center, Craig Pulsipher from AIDS Project Los Angeles, and Marco Castro-Bojorquez from Lambda Legal.

For more information about this presentation, click here.

EDIT 1/9/2015:

An electronic copy of the above presentation is now available: click here to download.

 

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