A Declaration of Liberation: Building a Racially Just and Strategic Domestic HIV Movement
A Declaration of Liberation: Building a Racially Just and Strategic Domestic HIV Movement is a foundational document developed by the Racial Justice Framework Group to assert that any meaningful response to HIV in the United States must be grounded in a racial justice framework.
The declaration situates HIV as a marker of systemic inequity shaped by white supremacy, poverty, economic injustice, gender bias, and other intersecting structures of oppression. It centers anti-Blackness as a core driver of inequity and calls for HIV strategies that confront—not accommodate—the systems that produce harm.
Rather than serving as a static statement, the document is intentionally framed as a living tool. It is designed to be used as an analytical framework, a discussion resource, and a mechanism for holding organizations and institutions accountable through racial justice audits, leadership realignment, and equitable resource allocation.
This resource supports leadership and capacity building by offering a shared framework for aligning HIV policy, advocacy, and movement strategy with racial justice, collective power, and accountability to the communities most impacted by the epidemic.
