REPEAL STI Discrimination Act

Repealing New York’s HIV and sexually-transmitted infection (STI) criminalization law, Public Health Law § 2307, is a critical step toward ending the epidemic. Laws that criminalize people living with HIV/AIDS and STIs discourage people from learning and disclosing their status, ignore science, harm patient relationships with counselors and doctors, and perpetuate stigma. New York must join the 12 states that have amended or repealed their laws criminalizing HIV/AIDS by passing the REPEAL STI Discrimination Act, S.4545-A (Hoylman-Sigal) / A.733-A (Gonzalez-Rojas), which would repeal Public Health Law § 2307. The NYCLU strongly supports this bill and urges its immediate passage.