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2025 HMM Newsletters

Earlier Years

Media Tracking Indiana Reform Efforts

2024 NPR: HIV advocates, organizations talk legislative solutions at first advocacy summit
2024 IU Slate: New report, coauthored by Dr. Carrie Foote, underscores the urgent need to reform Indiana’s outdated HIV criminal laws
2024 POZ Magazine: People with HIV have been arrested in Indiana for donating plasma
2024 Indiana Capitol Chronical: Hoosier HIV anti-donation law used 18 times since 2000, report says
2024 WIBC 93.1 FM Groups Look to Change Indiana’s HIV Laws in Relation to Plasma Donation
2023 WRTV: Hoos iers advocate for Causes on Organization Day
2023 Indy Star: Indiana has harsher legal penalties for those living with HIV
2023 The Body.com: Reform of HIV Criminalization Laws Gaining Traction in Indiana but Not Yet There
2023 WFYI Damien Center puts support behind efforts to update ‘old’ laws
2023 TheStatehouseFile.com: House passes bill decriminalizing blood donors unaware they have HIV
2023 WTHR House bill would change laws that address alleged crimes committed by HIV-positive Hoosiers
2023 WNDU Indiana bill would update laws for crimes committed by HIV-positive people
2023 WFYI Legislation to modernize Indiana’s HIV laws clears House committee
2023 WRTV House Bill 1198 would get rid of criminal enhancements for people living with HIV
2023 Journal Gazette It’s past time to destigmatize HIV in Indiana
2023 Indy Star Indiana legislation would remove harsher penalty for those with HIV
2023 WRTV Indiana bill would change sentence enhancements,criminal offenses related to HIV
2023 WTHR: Bill would change battery with HIV laws
2023 IN Capital Chronical Lawmaker proposes removing stigmatizing HIV language from criminal code
2022 AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on IU’s campus: Interview Advocate HMM
2022 Wish TV: Indiana panel recommends repealing HIV penalties
2022: Campus Citizen: IUPUI Sociology Professor’s Path to Ending HIV Stigma in Indiana Law
2022 The Journal Gazette: Science has advanced the lives of HIV-positive people, but our laws are in the dark ages
2022 Indiana Capital Chronical: HIV laws, funding for mental health in Indiana justice system weighed by lawmakers
2022 Fox 59 Advocates push to change ‘outdated’ laws impacting Hoosiers with HIV
2022 WFYI Advocates say reforming HIV laws will help destigmatize disease, improve public health
2022 Indiana Capital Chronicle Lawmakers recommend lessening HIV criminal penalties
2022 The Journal Gazette: Study committee to review Indiana’s HIV laws
2022 Inspire Justice Productions Video: Modernize Indiana HIV Criminal Laws: End the Stigma and HIV Epidemic
2022 Indiana State Bar Association CLE Course: HIV Criminalization, Law Reform, and the HIV Modernization Movement-Indiana
2021 ACLU Shifting the Rhetoric Around Hoosiers Living with HIV
2020 THFGI Indiana Harm Reduction Video – Law Makers
2020 HIV Modernization Movement (HMM) Damien Center Monthly Livestream
2019 Indiana Public Radion NPR HIV Modernization Legislation Considered By Lawmakers
2019 WFYI NPR The HIV Modernization Movement
2017 DVN Newsletter HIV Laws and Domestic Violence – Indiana
2017 South Bend Tribune: Does Indiana need its ‘duty-to-warn’ law on HIV?
2016 POZ Magazine New Group Tackles HIV Crime Laws
2016 Working to Modernize HIV Laws
2016 IN Law Review Criminalization Of HIV: Spread Of The Viral Underclass

INDIANA HIV CRIMINAL LAW RESERCH REPORTS

HIV Criminalization Law Research in Indiana
Infograph: Research, Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in Indiana
2016 Indiana HIV Criminal Law Provider Survey Results

POLICY STATEMENTS

Jeanne White-Ginder Mother of Ryan White, Statement – IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Red Cross Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Disability Rights Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN State Medical Association Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Interim Study Committee HIV Criminal Law Reform
Fact Sheet for Law Enforcement: Spit Does Not Transmit
Call to Action: “Stuck In the 80s” Join HMM-Indiana and Call your Law Maker
15 Ways HIV Criminalization Laws Harm Us All, Lambda Legal
Selected Policy Statements and Support for Decriminalization in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2015
Selected Policy Statements and Support for Decriminalization in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2015

BEST PRACTICES FOR REFORM

Guiding Principles for Eliminating Disease-Specific Criminal Laws, 2015
Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors, 2014

2024 HMM Newsletters

Earlier Years

Media Tracking Indiana Reform Efforts

INDIANA HIV CRIMINAL LAW RESERCH REPORTS

POLICY STATEMENTS

Jeanne White-Ginder Mother of Ryan White, Statement – IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Red Cross Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Disability Rights Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN State Medical Association Statement on IN HIV Criminal Law Reform
IN Interim Study Committee HIV Criminal Law Reform
Fact Sheet for Law Enforcement: Spit Does Not Transmit
CDC HIV Criminalization and Ending the HIV Epidemic
Infograph: Research, Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in Indiana
Call to Action: “Stuck In the 80s” Join HMM-Indiana and Call your Law Maker
15 Ways HIV Criminalization Laws Harm Us All, Lambda Legal
Selected Policy Statements and Support for Decriminalization in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2015
Selected Policy Statements and Support for Decriminalization in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2015

BEST PRACTICES FOR REFORM

Guiding Principles for Eliminating Disease-Specific Criminal Laws, 2015
Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors, 2014

2025 HMM Newsletters

Earlier Years

Media Tracking Indiana Reform Efforts

INDIANA HIV CRIMINAL LAW RESERCH REPORTS

POLICY STATEMENTS

BEST PRACTICES FOR REFORM

State House – 2017

Local Fairs – 2021

Advocate Training

2024 HMM Newsletters

Earlier Years

Media Tracking Indiana Reform Efforts

INDIANA HIV CRIMINAL LAW RESERCH REPORTS

POLICY STATEMENTS

BEST PRACTICES FOR REFORM

State House – 2017

Local Fairs – 2021

Advocate Training

Change the Law – End the Stigma