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Global AIDS Gag Holds Critical Funding Captive to Politics (11/09/2005)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern about a U.S. government policy that ties the hands of public health service providers and those who work with them in the global fight against AIDS.

NYCLU Criticizes Ban on Condom Demonstrations in Sex Education Classes in New York (08/27/2004)
NEW YORK -- The New York Civil Liberties Union today praised the New York City Department of Education for revising the sex education curriculum but criticized its refusal to include recommended condom demonstrations in a new curriculum.

ACLU Criticizes the CDC for Proposed Changes in Guidelines on AIDS-Related Materials (08/17/2004)
NEW YORK - In a letter submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Civil Liberties Union denounced suggested revisions to the agency's content guidelines for HIV/AIDS materials, which regulate the messages that HIV prevention organizations receiving federal funds can use in materials aimed at preventing HIV transmission. The new guidelines would require organizations to present HIV prevention materials for review by state and local health officials, who could be partisan, elected officials with no expertise in HIV issues and prevention.

ACLU Helps Launch Campaign to Oppose Government Censorship of Sexuality Education (06/12/2001)
WASHINGTON -- Joining with 34 other prominent national organizations, the American Civil Liberties Union today said that abstinence-only sexuality education dangerously limits students' access to information about human sexuality and results in widespread government-sponsored censorship. 

CT Court is First in Nation to Protect Needle Exchange Program from Police Harassment (01/19/2001)
BRIDGEPORT, CT--In a national test case challenging the illegal harassment and arrest of participants in a Needle Exchange Program, a federal court in Connecticut has ruled that police may not interfere with a public health initiative that effectively combats disease through education and prevention.

Coalition Letter to House and Senate Leaders Urging Review of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs (01/28/2005)
Coalition letter urging Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate to support a hearing to fully review federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs

ACLU Comments Urging the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") to Withdraw or Substantially Revise the Proposed Revision of Interim HIV Content Guidelines, 69 Fed. Reg. 33824 (June 16, 2004) (08/16/2004)

Coalition Sign-On Letter to the House Requesting Funding Priority for Title X National Family Planning Public Health Program in FY 2005 (03/17/2004)

Letter to the House Urging Opposition to the Musgrave Amendment to HR 1925, the Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act (05/14/2003)

Letter to the House on Needle Exchange in D.C. Appropriations Bill (09/06/2000)

ACLU Letter on HIV Prevention Guidelines for Community Groups (08/17/2004)

ACLU Letter on HIV Prevention Guidelines for School-Based Programs (08/17/2004)