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AOSI vs. USAID: Challenging Global AIDS Funding Restrictions In September 2005, Open Society Institute spearheaded a legal challenge to the U.S. government’s requirement that recipients of global HIV/AIDS funding consent to an anti-prostitution pledge to exclude sex workers from HIV prevention services supported by the funds. The plaintiffs—Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI), Open Society Institute (OSI) and Pathfinder International—maintain that the U.S. government's policy requirements for grantees of global AIDS funding violates the First Amendment by forcing private organizations to adopt the government’s point of view and by restricting what they can say and do with their private funds. The Center for Public Health and Human Rights was asked by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law—the legal counsel representing OSI—to review the existing scientific evidence on strategies that effectively reduce rates of HIV among sex workers and to present our findings in a Declaration for the court. For updates and information on the ongoing case, please visit the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. |
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