Tag: HIV
Syringe Service Programs Are Spreading in Kentucky
A new report indicates that syringe service programs (SSP) are spreading in Kentucky, and ...
Activists Pushing for Pennsylvania to Finally Authorize Syringe Programs
Pennsylvania harm reduction activists will rally at the State Capitol in Harrisburg on April ...
HIV Rights Advance for Cops, Ahead of the Sex Workers They Criminalize
On March 23, the city of Nashville settled a federal discrimination lawsuit over barring ...
Watch: Mandela Asked This Harm Reductionist, “How Can I Be Helpful?”
Dr. Kgosi Letlape has been a passionate and relentless activist on the side of ...
Nebraska, a State With No Syringe Programs, Looks Set to Allow Them
Nebraska is a state so big that it takes at least six hours to ...
Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission
In the mid-’90s at Washington State Penitentiary, a corrections officer (CO) and I had ...
Selling Meth Sent Him to Prison. It Also Saved His Life.
Louis Bell was a type of person we typically didn’t encounter in our Tennessee ...
Republicans Threaten Global HIV Program That Saves Millions of Lives
House Republicans are threatening a federal program that provides HIV treatment and prevention services ...
Sharing Needles as Street Kids in LA, During the Rise of the HIV Epidemic
In 1988 Los Angeles, the kids who did sex work had communal syringes stashed ...
Harm Reduction Overlooks Hep A and B. They Matter Here in Prison.
On May 7, UNAIDS called for prisoner access to harm reduction—medication for opioid use ...
