POLICY & PUBLIC EDUCATION We champion evidence-based HIV/AIDS policy at the local, state and federal levels, fighting every day to protect the human rights of people at risk and living with HIV. 2017 brought both unprecedented challenges and windows of opportunity. Attacks on federal funding for HIV programs and the Affordable Care Act threatened millions of lives. Locally, a special task force examined the feasibility of launching safer consumption services, or medically supervised spaces to use drugs safely, to prevent deadly overdoses and decrease the harms of public drug consumption. Our public education initiatives brought this news, and information about viral suppression, long-term survivors, HIV stigma, PrEP, and sexual health, to audiences across the globe.
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