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Some countries have used the criminal law to prosecute people living with HIV who have – or are believed to have – put others at risk of acquiring HIV. Some countries’ laws criminalise people who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners as well as actual cases of HIV transmission.   

HIV prevention policy

Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men

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IPS
10 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

Australia: ‘Reasonable precautions’ defence welcomed

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Gay News Network
3 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

Swiss acupuncturist charged in 16 HIV infections between 2001 and 2005

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Washington Post
31 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

A Free Man: HIV+ man, David Plunkett Finally Released after being wrongly convicted for biting police officer

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The Body
22 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

People with HIV fear unfair treatment in courts

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American Independent
10 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

Fearing advocacy, Ottawa rejects HIV/AIDS funding proposals - Globe and Mail

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Globe and Mail
7 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

Zimbabwe Woman Fights Conviction of Deliberately Transmitting HIV

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Voice of America
3 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

Imprisoned over HIV: One man's story

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CNN
2 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

In the real world HIV has changed; in the courtroom it is still the 1980s

News
26 July 2012
Finance & funding

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Faces Major Funding Cuts

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Postitive Lite
24 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Zimbabwe: Deliberate Transmission of HIV Hard to Prove

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AllAfrica
14 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Global Commission on HIV and the Law: an analysis of their HIV criminalisation recommendations

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Criminal HIV Transmission
9 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Nondisclosure of HIV status should be decriminalized: report

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Toronto Star
9 July 2012
Discrimination & the law

How evidence and human rights based laws can end an epidemic of bad laws and transform the global AIDS response!

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Global Commission on HIV and the Law
9 July 2012
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Take the Test and Risk Arrest?

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Poz
27 June 2012
People who inject drugs

Failed war on drugs feeding HIV/AIDS, former leaders say

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CBC
26 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Ontario Crown Prosecutors on Witch-Hunt: PHAs Must Always Disclose HIV Status before Sex or Face Imprisonment

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AIDS Action Now
26 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

New AIDS Law Criminalizes HIV in Dominican Republic

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Poz magazine news
24 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Should not disclosing your HIV status be a crime?

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Mother Jones
22 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Controversial AIDS law passed in Dominican Republic

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International HIV/AIDS Alliance
21 June 2012
Experiences of stigma

Police HIV advice 'outdated and stigmatising'

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The Guardian
19 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Man makes safe-sex argument to overturn conviction on HIV exposure

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MSNBC
15 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

HIV-positive saliva not a 'deadly weapon' - NY court

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Reuters
8 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

State vs. Plunkett: New York Court of Appeals Says HIV+ Man’s Saliva Is Not a “Dangerous Instrument”

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The Center for HIV Law & Policy
8 June 2012