Showing 4,913 news articles about Social & legal issues

Filters Content type: Editors' picks Topic: Social & legal issues

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

HIV & criminal law

Kansas: Protection from quarantine for HIV, AIDS patients is discriminatory, state senator says

Editor's pick
Lawrence Journal-World
4 April 2013
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

Study: Undocumented Latinos Get Into HIV Treatment Dangerously Late

Editor's pick
ColorLines
4 April 2013
History of HIV & AIDS

The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

Editor's pick
The Advocate
2 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

A Spectacle of Stigma: A First-hand Account of a Canadian Criminal HIV Exposure Trial

Editor's pick
AIDS Action Now
2 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

Law Enforcement and HIV Policy Groups Release Fact Sheet for Police on HIV Risks - “Spit Does Not Transmit”

Editor's pick
HIV Justice Network
2 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

Four Stories: The Effects of HIV Criminalization on Sex and Intimacy

Editor's pick
Advocate.com
2 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

HIV case headed to Minnesota Supreme Court draws national interest

Editor's pick
Minneapolis Star Tribune
2 April 2013
Finance & funding

EU in "denial" that sick economy costs lives, health experts say

Editor's pick
Reuters
28 March 2013
Transmission & prevention

Canadians' awareness, attitudes, knowledge and behaviours related to HIV and hepatitis C

Editor's pick
CATIE
28 March 2013
Drug policy & policing

'This Is Working': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs

Editor's pick
Spiegel Online
28 March 2013
HIV prevention policy

Was the “sexual revolution” triggered by the decline of syphilis?

Editor's pick
BMJ Group blogs
28 March 2013
Religion & faith

Good News on AIDS in Africa: Deaths are down, and the heroes of the story aren’t who you think.

Editor's pick
Slate
28 March 2013
Activism & civil society

New TB Activist Organisation Launched

Editor's pick
Global Fund Observer
28 March 2013
Sexual health

The rise of online STI dating

Editor's pick
BBC Health
28 March 2013
HIV & criminal law

Activist: Kansas HIV quarantine bill lets religious officials justify discrimination

Editor's pick
Raw Story
28 March 2013
HIV & criminal law

Kenya: Former Aids Lobby Director Denies Fraud

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
28 March 2013
Tuberculosis & HIV

Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

Editor's pick
IRIN
25 March 2013
TB transmission & prevention

The historical arc of tuberculosis prevention

Editor's pick
Oxford University Press blog
24 March 2013
HIV & criminal law

Criminal jabs: ‘Healer’ heads to prison for HIV inoculations

Editor's pick
Swiss Info
22 March 2013
Women

Lawyer fights 'widow sex' tradition in Malawi

Editor's pick
CNN
22 March 2013
Discrimination & the law

UK: Disability hate crime is 'overlooked and under-reported'

Editor's pick
BBC
21 March 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Cameroon: Human Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions

Editor's pick
Human Rights Watch LGBT
21 March 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

Editor's pick
Africa Check
21 March 2013
Behaviour change interventions

Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints

Editor's pick
BBC
21 March 2013