We are Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit devoted to positively changing lives in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Through HIV prevention, housing and care, our work to end the HIV epidemic is essential to a healthy community.
December 6, 2025 • 11:30 AM–3:00 PM
Caracole
4138 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45223
Despite advances in treatment and prevention, outdated laws in Ohio still criminalize people living with HIV. These laws—based on fear rather than science—can lead to harsher penalties, stigma and discrimination for people simply because of their HIV status.
Changing these laws is essential to building a safer, more just and more informed community. Understanding how HIV criminalization works and who it impacts is the first step toward ending it.
Join us on December 6 at Caracole to explore how HIV criminalization continues to harm people in Ohio—and what’s being done to change it.
Adam Reilly has worked in HIV prevention and with people living with HIV for more than 17 years. His experience includes HIV testing, counseling and both individual and group support services. A longtime harm reduction advocate, Adam helped launch syringe exchange efforts in Cincinnati and played a key role in the passage of Ohio’s 2014 law expanding syringe access statewide.
He was named “Advocate of the Year” in CityBeat’s 2011 Best of the City issue, received the Oscar Armstrong Award from Public Allies in 2013, and led The Cincinnati Exchange Project to win the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2015 Health Care Heroes award. Adam is a fellow with Caring Ambassadors and serves on the steering committee for the Ohio Health Modernization Movement. He has led Caracole’s Caraconference planning for the past eight years.
What to Expect
Questions? Please reach out to Taylor Selman at [email protected]
Please email Taylor Selman at [email protected] to let us know you’re coming, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
After the Lunch & Learn, help us create handmade holiday cards as part of the Sero Project’s national campaign. All card-making supplies will be provided.
Sero centers people living with HIV in efforts to end HIV criminalization, mass incarceration, and social injustice. Their Holiday Card Project sends handmade cards to people living with HIV who are incarcerated, reminding them they are not forgotten and offering connection, care, and encouragement during the season.
Learn more about the project’s history here: hivjustice.net/news/sero-holiday-card-project
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