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By Donna Jordan After many years of advocacy and with the breakthroughs of modern science, the time is NOW to modernize New Jersey’s HIV-specific criminal statutes We know discrimination. We’ve been fighting against it our entire lives. And when we learned that there are laws that discriminate against people living with HIV (PLHIV), we couldn’t stay silent. The issue of HIV/AIDS is very personal to me. I lost several friends to the disease during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 90s. Friends who, if diagnosed today, would have had the opportunity to live long, healthy lives th…