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Social, economic, legal and political issues that may affect the lives of people living with HIV, including stigma, discrimination, criminalisation, travel and insurance.

Violence

Sexual violence against girls widespread in Swaziland

News
12 May 2009
Social & legal issues

NHS trust apologises and compensates man with HIV after refusal of treatment

News
29 April 2009
Social & legal issues

Human rights organisations express outrage over Burundi's criminalisation of homosexuality

News
28 April 2009
Transmission & prevention

Beliefs about gender equality predict multiple concurrent sexual partnerships

News
8 April 2009
Social & legal issues

Guilty verdict in first ever murder trial for sexual HIV transmission

News
7 April 2009
Epidemiology & behaviour

Conference highlights the forces encouraging risk behaviour in gay men

News
13 March 2009
Transmission & prevention

Stigma drives HIV-positive gay men’s sexual risk-taking

News
6 March 2009
Social & legal issues

Swiss court accepts that criminal HIV exposure is only 'hypothetical' on successful treatment, quashes conviction (updated)

News
25 February 2009
HIV treatment

Universal access to antiretroviral therapy has not eradicated HIV-related stigma in Tanzania

News
20 February 2009
Social & legal issues

Report shows police mishandling of investigations into alleged criminal HIV transmission

News
28 January 2009
Social & legal issues

Using phylogenetic analysis and contact tracing to identify HIV transmitters possible, but legally problematic

News
23 January 2009
HIV & criminal law

Unsafe convictions?

News
1 January 2009
History of HIV & AIDS

Back to the future

News
1 January 2009
Transmission & prevention

Internalised homophobia leads to sexual risk taking by HIV-positive gay men

News
1 January 2009
Access to healthcare

Governments in southern Africa need to work harder at treatment scale-up, say activists

News
11 December 2008
People who inject drugs

Chinese HIV prevention with drug users undermined by police

News
11 December 2008
Social & legal issues

GNP+ launches website documenting global HIV exposure/transmission laws and prosecutions

News
4 December 2008
Social & legal issues

Concerns over miscarriage of justice after first UK conviction for transmission of hepatitis B

News
21 November 2008
Telling people you have HIV

Study explores verbal and non-verbal communication in unprotected sex between men

News
18 November 2008
Money

No allowances

News
1 November 2008
Access to healthcare

The consequences of fear

News
1 November 2008
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Fear and stigma creating hepatitis C transmission risk for HIV-positive gay men

News
25 September 2008
Transmission & prevention

Justice Edwin Cameron calls for a campaign against 'misguided criminal laws and prosecutions'

News
26 August 2008
Epidemiology & behaviour

Immigration and prevention: the effect of migration on risk behaviour

News
15 August 2008