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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.   

Human rights

Uganda’s Sexual Offences law a step back for HIV and human rights

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HIV Justice Network
6 May 2021
HIV & criminal law

Virginia Proves HIV Criminalization Laws Are Harder to Repeal Than They Should Be

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TheBody
22 April 2021
HIV & criminal law

Illinois State House votes to decriminalize HIV transmission

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Daily Herald
16 April 2021
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

HIV Genetic Data is Tracked and Shared. It’s Creepy and Dangerous.

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My Fabulous Disease
14 April 2021
HIV & criminal law

Virginia becomes eighth US state since 2012 to modernise its HIV criminalisation laws

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HIV Justice Network
9 April 2021
HIV & criminal law

Fighting for Nushawn

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POZ
31 March 2021
Discrimination & the law

Police must remove and end use of database warning markers for HIV to stop HIV stigma, says National AIDS Trust

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National AIDS Trust
11 March 2021
HIV & criminal law

Trump May Be Gone, but the HIV Criminalization Fight Goes On

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TheBody
1 March 2021
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Molecular HIV surveillance: friend or foe?

News
18 January 2021
HIV & criminal law

UK: Laws around HIV transmissions need urgent update

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Oxford Brookes University
12 January 2021
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

In Legal First, Chinese Court Grants Annulment Over Concealed HIV Status

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Sixth Tone
6 January 2021
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

What Exactly Is Molecular Surveillance—and Why Are HIV Advocates Freaking Out Over It?

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TheBody
3 January 2021
HIV & criminal law

HIV Criminalisation in the EU/EEA: a comparative 10 country report

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AIDS Action Europe
11 December 2020
HIV & criminal law

Should we prosecute those who spread COVID-19? A modest proposal

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NJ.com
9 December 2020
Infant feeding

Expert Consensus Statement on Breastfeeding and HIV in the United States and Canada

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The Well Project
9 December 2020
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

New South Wales Government's Proposed Mandatory HIV Testing Condemned

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Star Observer
16 November 2020
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

We Are People, Not Clusters! Why public health surveillance using blood taken for HIV resistance testing risks doing more harm than good

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HIV Justice Network
22 September 2020
HIV in the arts & media

Media reporting of intentional HIV transmission case amplified HIV stigma

News
2 September 2020
HIV & criminal law

HIV+ Canadian Guilty Of Sexual Assault, Despite Condom Use

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Star Observer
10 August 2020
HIV & criminal law

HIV and LGBTQ Criminalization Laws Are Both Human Rights and Public Health Issues, Experts Say

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TheBodyPro
21 July 2020
Low & theoretical transmission risks

HIV testing people who spit at police or health workers won't actually protect them

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The Conversation
15 July 2020
Economic & social inequality

MSM living in African countries that criminalise gay sex are at a much higher risk of getting HIV

News
5 July 2020
Coronavirus

UK: Sex with someone you don’t live with is illegal from today

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Metro
1 June 2020
HIV & criminal law

Canadian study provides damning evidence of the “dramatic overrepresentation” of Black men in HIV criminalisation news reporting

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HIV Justice Network
22 May 2020