HIV criminalization continues to impact people across the United States—often regardless of actual risk, scientific evidence, or engagement in care. This resource offers grounded guidance for understanding the landscape, preparing for potential legal harm, and identifying support, while recognizing the limits of what individuals can control within a punitive system.

This conversation documents how lived experience, political context, and public visibility intersect in efforts to challenge HIV criminalization and stigma.

This conversation documents how HIV criminalization extends beyond legal punishment to shape mental health, identity, and survival long after incarceration.

This first-person account documents the lived consequences of HIV criminalization and the ways outdated laws transform health status into state punishment.

This conversation documents how HIV criminalization functions as a system of fear and punishment that continues to shape queer lives long after the height of the AIDS crisis.

This conversation documents the long-term personal and structural consequences of HIV criminalization, including how law and stigma continue to shape intimacy, identity, and autonomy after punishment ends.

A practical guide for using person-first language as a tool to reduce stigma and reshape how criminal legal systems define people.

A systems overview video that explains how HIV criminalization laws operate, why they persist, and what reform requires from advocates and policymakers.

A public education video designed to address HIV stigma and misinformation by explaining HIV criminalization as a structural public health issue.

A systems-level conversation examining HIV in Black life across history, current realities, and future possibilities—centering equity, leadership, and accountability.

A public health conversation that frames HIV decriminalization as a necessary systems reform grounded in science, equity, and human rights.