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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.   

Telling people you have HIV

Being outed associated with sevenfold increase in violence related to HIV status for women living with HIV in highly criminalised Canada

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14 August 2023
HIV & criminal law

U=U acknowledged in prosecutors’ guidance in England and Wales

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3 April 2023
Conference announcements & declarations

Passports and privilege: what does the future hold for global HIV conferences?

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27 January 2023
HIV & criminal law

Systemic stigma: Tennessee’s anti-HIV law enforcement targets people of colour, trans people, and poor people

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12 September 2022
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

The ethics of phylogenetics? Central issues surrounding the use of molecular HIV surveillance

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8 September 2022
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

The challenges integrating U=U into HIV care around the world

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17 August 2022
HIV & criminal law

HIV criminalisation continues with over 270 arrests recorded in 39 countries in the last three years

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22 July 2022
HIV & criminal law

Canadian HIV criminalisation laws increase violence against women living with HIV

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8 June 2022
HIV in the arts & media

Journalists’ working conditions foster stigmatising coverage of HIV criminalisation

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29 March 2022
HIV & criminal law

HIV criminalisation and breastfeeding: a growing concern in sub-Saharan Africa

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6 January 2022
Human rights

Countries that criminalise same-sex relationships, sex work and drug use have poorer HIV outcomes

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21 June 2021
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Molecular HIV surveillance: friend or foe?

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18 January 2021
HIV in the arts & media

Media reporting of intentional HIV transmission case amplified HIV stigma

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2 September 2020
Economic & social inequality

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

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5 July 2020
Economic & social inequality

Punitive laws associated with HIV infections in female sex workers

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9 August 2019
HIV & criminal law

HIV criminalisation cases recorded in 72 countries, including 49 in the last four years

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3 June 2019
HIV & criminal law

Navigating rules and reality: HIV disclosure, infectiousness and legal obligations in Sweden

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6 February 2019
HIV & criminal law

HIV non-disclosure laws perpetuate social injustices against women in Canada

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5 February 2019
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

‘Negligible’ risk of HIV transmission with a suppressed viral load, Canadian public health officials tell prosecutors

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23 November 2018
HIV & criminal law

World experts publish consensus statement on the science of HIV in the context of criminal law

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25 July 2018
HIV & criminal law

Criminalisation of HIV high on agenda at AIDS 2018

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24 July 2018
Sex workers

Legalisation of sex work associated with lower prevalence of HIV in sex workers

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7 February 2017
HIV & criminal law

HIV criminalisation on the rise, especially in sub-Saharan Africa

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19 July 2016
HIV & criminal law

Criminal laws on HIV transmission make little difference to sexual behaviour – or may make condomless sex more likely

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1 February 2016