CWRU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit

03/13/2026

We’re tabling today for National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day with Naimah! ❤️

03/11/2026

Thanks to all who joined our Community Advisory Board monthly meeting last night! 💜 You are all research-supporting rockstars, including our UH colleague Cielle, who helped get the dinner from Falafel Cafe Middle Eastern Cuisine and set everything up. DEELICIOUS! 🔥 Please join us next month on the 2nd Tuesday at 6pm. All are welcome!

03/11/2026

Exciting news about HPV elimination!


🚨 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can now be completely eliminated, thanks to Mexican researchers.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28380684/

03/09/2026

Congratulations to Kimball and Kaemmerer on their new leadership roles with the AIDS Funding Collaborative advisory committee! ❤️

AIDS Funding Collaborative welcomes 2026 advisory committee leadership to advance the local HIV response

https://www.communitysolutions.com/resources/aids-funding-collaborative-2026-advisory-committee-leadership

03/04/2026

CWRU Dept. of Molecular Bio & Microbio 2026 seminars presents

Mary Ann Checkley of the Karn Lab
NK cell combination therapy as a promising HIV cure strategy
Thurs, March 5 at 1 pm in W203 and Zoom
(contact Rose Davis for link)

03/03/2026

“Let’s be clear, Florida’s Department of Health is embarking on a public health crisis in the Sunshine State." 🤬

Joint Statement on the Proposed Changes to Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program: ADAP Advocacy and HealthHIV Conjoin Patient and Provider Concerns Threatening the Well-Being of Floridians Living with HIV/AIDS

Washington, DC – ADAP Advocacy and HealthHIV issued the following joint statement in response to the proposed changes to services for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) as set forth in the Notice of Proposed Rule (NPR) #30517381, promulgated by the Florida Department of Health (DOH). ADAP Advocacy and HealthHIV have not previously submitted joint public comments; however, the magnitude and consequences of the proposed changes compel a unified response. The proposed changes to Florida Rules 64D-4.002, 64D-4.003, and 64D-4.007 necessitate a joint statement. Written comment was submitted to the state today.

Scott Bertani, Director of Advocacy of HealthHIV, “We applaud Florida’s HIV advocacy community for taking immediate, practical steps to stabilize care for the patients potentially being adversely impacted by the Florida Department of Health’s ill advised changes to that state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program. We’re calling on Florida legislators to demand more accountability for why these proposed changes to the Florida ADAP are even being considered, especially since the department’s budget justification lacks any credibility. We’re working with HIV care providers on how best to assist their clients about coverage transitions, including what is changing, when it takes effect, and how to avoid care disruption.”

Brandon M. Macsata, CEO of ADAP Advocacy, echoed: “Let’s be clear, Florida’s Department of Health is embarking on a public health crisis in the Sunshine State. There will be treatment gaps; there will be patients falling out of care; there will be an increase in community viral load; there will be more new HIV infections; and the state will absorb more healthcare costs, not less. Adding fuel to this fire is the state using its ‘emergency rule’ authority, even though no true emergency exists, because its proposal is predicated on inaccurate cost estimates. Thousands of Floridians living with HIV are having their health, wellness, and potentially their lives put in harm’s way, and the Florida Legislature needs to step in and help them.”

To learn more about the joint statement issued by ADAP Advocacy and HealthHIV, please email info@adapadvocacy.org or info@healthhiv.org.

02/28/2026

HIV Is Not a Crime!!!
Please read more about Ohio's terrible HIV-related laws and what we need to do to change them, as well as national efforts to decriminalize HIV. ❤️

In this HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness (HINAC) Day statement, CHLP calls for the abolishment of ICE and the repeal of HIV criminalization laws that criminalize the humanity of our communities. We argue for the expansion of the meaning of HINAC Day as HIV criminalization cannot be separated from immigration enforcement, policing, and broader systems of anti-Black and anti-immigrant state violence and those at its intersections.

Grounded in our abolitionist, Black q***r feminist framework, our statement shows how criminalization deepens health inequities and creates barriers to care for marginalized communities. We call for cross-movement solidarity to resist carceral systems and affirm that no person’s health status—or immigration status—should ever be grounds for punishment.

Read the full statement at
https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/being-human-not-crime-hiv-immigration-and-state-violence

02/28/2026

Let’s honor courage. Celebrate progress. And keep fighting for a future where every life is valued. ✊

Today, on HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, we honor the resilience, courage, and humanity of people living with HIV—and call out the laws that criminalize them simply for existing.

Living with HIV is not a crime. Yet in over 30 states, outdated laws rooted in stigma and fear continue to punish people, ignoring decades of scientific progress like U=U (undetectable = untransmittable). These laws don’t just harm—they erase dignity, freedom, and joy.

Today, we amplify voices, lift stories, and celebrate the power of truth and justice. Everyone deserves to live fully, love freely, and experience pleasure without fear. By challenging stigma, demanding equity, and standing together, we move closer to a world where HIV is understood, treated, and never criminalized.

Let’s honor courage. Celebrate progress. And keep fighting for a future where every life is valued. ✊💜

02/28/2026

Follow Ohio Health Modernization Movement to learn more about Ohio's unjust, unscientific, unhelpful HIV laws, and what you can do to fight them. 🔥

HIV is not a crime. But Ohio’s HIV laws are some of the most punishing & stigmatizing laws for people living with HIV. They do not reflect what we know is true about HIV transmission & prevention. They must be changed! 📣

Follow Ohio Health Modernization Movement to learn more about these laws, and what you can do to fight them.

02/28/2026

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At OHMM, we recognize HIV Is Not a Crime Day.
HIV is a manageable health condition, not a criminal act. Science has transformed prevention and treatment, but the law has not always kept pace.

Criminalization does not protect public health. It fuels stigma, discourages testing and care, and disproportionately harms Black communities. Modernizing HIV laws means choosing science over fear, care over punishment, and public health over stigma.

📢 Learn why HIV is not a crime and why the law must change:
www.ohmodernizenow.org

02/28/2026

HIV Is Not a Crime! 🔥

Across the U.S. states, HIV criminalization laws allow prosecutors to use a person’s HIV status to increase charges or penalties; even in cases where there is no intent to harm and no actual risk of transmission. These laws were enacted during the early years of the epidemic, when fear outpaced science.

On this HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, we call on our community to:
• Mobilize - To build power. To build community. And to build solidarity.
• Educate - Continue to raise our awareness around the impact of criminalization on people living with HIV. And educate ourselves and each other about our rich and inspiring movement history.
• Share our stories - Our stories are our power. Through our stories, we not only move hearts and minds, we shift the culture.
• Build power to build community-This is how we change the laws that criminalize our communities.

Health equity cannot be achieved while laws continue to criminalize people around their health. HIV is not a crime. It is a public health issue. And justice demands that our laws reflect that truth.

(from Georgia HIV Justice Coalition 🔥)

Learn more at https://ohmodernizenow.org and https://www.hivisnotacrime-etaf.org