This week, Congress will hear HR 734– a bill to ban transgender youth from participating in sports. This bill is a clear attempt to put politics over the well-being of transgender youth. It must be stopped– Send a message to your Congressperson, RIGHT NOW, and urge them to oppose HR 734!
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How has Georgia’s HIV criminalization law changed in 2022?
As of July 1st, Georgia’s recently modernized HIV criminalization law implicates a drastically different proof for criminal charges that can be brought against a person with HIV in Georgia.
In the earlier days of the AIDS epidemic, states were encouraged to enact laws criminalizing people with HIV who “knowingly exposed” another person to HIV in exchange for federal funding to AIDS care. Since then, many states have repealed or modernized their HIV criminalization laws to reflect accurate science and stray away from the phobic sentiment with which these laws were written.
Members of the State Senate are beginning conversations TODAY on the potential for increased funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, and they need to hear from us RIGHT NOW! Click here to send your message.
A $15.4 million increase for the Georgia AIDS Drug Assistance Program has been proposed by House Public Health Subcommittee of Appropriations Chair Butch Parrish– this is our chance to make sure that the more than 12,000 Georgians living with HIV who cannot otherwise afford it, will not go without access to life saving medication.
In addition to saving the lives of the individuals enrolled in ADAP, access to treatment for HIV works to prevent the spread of the virus as well– treatment is prevention. Georgia is poised to make dramatic inroads to contain the spread of HIV in our communities and reverse a mortality rate from AIDS that remains one of the worst in the country, but only if the Department of Public Health and county health departments throughout Georgia have the funding they need to provide these services. Send your message now!
Great news! Local leaders in Statesboro, Georgia just passed an ordinance protecting residents from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public spaces like restaurants and businesses, and more.
What has happened over the past few months in Brunswick with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the subsequent effort to cover it up is disgusting. It’s clearer now more than ever before that Georgia must finally begin address violence against the African American community and all marginalized communities — and it needs to happen now.
Georgia in one of only 4 states without a hate crime law. At present, a bill that would change that is stuck in the State Senate Judiciary Committee. Click here to send a message to republican members of the committee urging them to support a hate crime law in Georgia.
