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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.

People who inject drugs

Chinese HIV prevention with drug users undermined by police

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11 December 2008
Social & legal issues

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

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4 December 2008
Social & legal issues

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

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21 November 2008
Telling people you have HIV

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

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18 November 2008
Money

No allowances

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1 November 2008
Access to healthcare

The consequences of fear

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1 November 2008
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

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

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25 September 2008
Transmission & prevention

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

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26 August 2008
Epidemiology & behaviour

Immigration and prevention: the effect of migration on risk behaviour

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15 August 2008
Ethnic & cultural minorities

Ethnic minority gay men in UK have very different rates of HIV infection despite similar behaviours

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14 August 2008
Social & legal issues

Criminal HIV transmission and exposure laws spreading around the world ‘like a virus’

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7 August 2008
HIV prevention policy

Major prevention success for sex workers and men who have sex with men in India

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6 August 2008
Transmission & prevention

Swiss statement that ‘undetectable equals uninfectious’ creates more controversy in Mexico City

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5 August 2008
Economic & social inequality

Microfinance project reduces HIV risk in South African women, gold standard trial shows

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4 August 2008
HIV treatment

PEPFAR reauthorisation approved by President Bush; HIV travel ban will end

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30 July 2008
Transmission & prevention

Gay Men’s Sex Survey: new data on knowledge of the law, use of poppers, oral sex and testing for hepatitis C

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21 July 2008
Social & legal issues

Swiss court rules all people with HIV can be criminally liable for transmission, even if untested

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18 July 2008
Social & legal issues

Kenyan woman wins landmark wrongful dismissal case

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11 July 2008
Social & legal issues

Poverty and unemployment common amongst HIV-positive Londoners

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2 July 2008
Experiences of stigma

HIV-positive Caribbean people in the UK experience high levels of stigma

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2 July 2008
Transmission & prevention

Activists arrested during attempt to highlight Uganda's neglect of HIV prevention for men who have sex with men

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6 June 2008
Low & theoretical transmission risks

Texas jury concludes saliva of HIV-positive man a ‘deadly weapon’, sentenced to 35 yrs jail

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16 May 2008
Social & legal issues

Guidelines on prosecuting criminal HIV transmission for England & Wales finally published

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19 March 2008
Telling people you have HIV

HIV disclosure rates higher for gay men than Africans in London

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18 March 2008