#communitiesnotclusters

@uspwn @hivlawandpolicy @HIVcaucus

❤️❤️❤️ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ❤️❤️❤️   I love human rights. I love informed consent. I love people living with HIV!  This Valentine’s day I’m standing up against public health officials taking and sharing HIV viral sequence data without consent from people living with HIV. This practice – known as molecular HIV surveillance (MHS) and cluster detection and response (CDR) – is deeply concerning.  >> FIRST, our personal and sensitive medical information is being used for surveillance purposes without meaningfully involving people living with HIV in program planning, without informed consent and even without our knowledge.  >> SECOND, HIV surveillance and HIV criminalization collide to put the human rights of people living with HIV at risk, and can be especially dangerous for Black people, communities of color, sex workers, and other communities that are hyper-policed and over-surveilled.  >> THIRD, the CDC could make changes to better respect and protect the human rights and dignity of people living with HIV. But they haven’t!  We know the changes that need to be made. Most recently, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) unanimously passed a historic resolution that responds to these concerns and urges the CDC to change their guidance on MHS/CDR activities. (Read more about it here: http://bit.ly/PACHAresolution.) This Valentine’s Day, join me in telling the CDC that they MUST implement the PACHA resolution! The human rights and dignity of people living with HIV cannot wait! #ILoveConsent #MyBodyMyData #CommunitiesNotClusters #EndMHS @CDCgov @CDC_HIV @dr_demetre @uspwn @hivlawandpolicy @HIVcaucus SEE OUR SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL KIT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NplGRCUtDonrYuY8P4e_RRLlr00anZ9yUz_aReS-TY/edit?usp=drivesdk (at USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoptespOvifw7V2JX1f42JhvFjsAdkkfVTBcAI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=