Women With a Vision is co-sponsoring a webinar on infectious disease and stigma this Thursday, October 23rd at 1PM CST! Join us!
Webinar: Stigma and Criminalization of Infectious Diseases:
Building Bridges Across Issues, Communities, and Movements
Thursday, October 23, 1pm-2:30pm CT
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In our collective focus on HIV and the stigma that accompanies it, we often lose sight of the long history of discrimination and stigma associated with other infectious diseases. Beyond HIV, other infectious diseases such as meningitis, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis (TB), often face similar or greater stigma, and trigger discrimination and criminalization. People with HIV are disproportionately affected by these conditions along with many other populations, including homeless people, individuals in prison, drug users, and immigrants.
Increasingly, we are seeing infectious diseases referenced in public policy debates: from extensive coverage of the Ebola epidemic, and associating TB with the immigrant crisis at the Mexico/U.S. Border, to meningitis and MRSA outbreaks among gay men living with HIV. There is much to learn and share from the HIV advocacy movement to address and ally on similar issues faced by other infectious diseases.
Where are we now? These diseases still are not well understood by the general public and even people living with HIV and advocates. Lack of understanding of the personal, medical and social consequences of the intersection of these diseases can frustrate health outcomes for affected individuals and policymaking to ensure and protect those outcomes.
Join us for a discussion on how we can movement build together.
This webinar will:

• Explain how infectious diseases such as hepatitis, meningococcal disease, and TB effect people living with HIV and remain a serious global threat
• Examine the stigma associated with infectious diseases other than HIV and how those diseases disproportionately affect specific communities
• Explore the connection between HIV criminalization and broader criminalization based on identity and disease
• Consider problems of over-criminalization, and over-policing of people of color, immigrants, queer youth, and transgender people
• Discuss strategies to modernize HIV-specific laws

Featuring:

• Lauren Fanning, Community Advocate at Washington State
• Carol Galletly, Associate Professor at Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin
• Coco Jervis, Policy Director at National Women’s Health Network
• Moderator: Kenyon Farrow, US and Global Policy Director at Treatment Action Group

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This webinar will encourage collaboration and movement-building across communities and social justice movements, and equip participants to better incorporate the diverse perspectives and experiences of routinely marginalized people in community outreach, advocacy, and legislative campaigns.
This webinar is co-sponsored by the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), Treatment Action Group (TAG), The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), AIDS United, The Counter Narrative Project, HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), the Positive Justice Project (PJP), Positive Women’s Network of the United States of America (PWN-USA), SisterLove Inc., and Women With a Vision, Inc.