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  • Support Ontario's prosecutorial guidelines process, tell the Attorney General to meet with civil society http://t.co/rqVVlvH08g #HIVCan 24 May 2013
  • Canada: New guide for HIV care professionals offers practical advice around HIV and the criminal law http://t.co/92oRyy7KSP #HIVCan 23 May 2013
  • Bahrain: Proposed law would require people with HIV to obtain judges' permission to marry http://t.co/9j7A2ucXuf 14 May 2013
  • US: Excellent article by @ariezrawaldman explaining why HIV criminalisation laws are unjust and how to move forward http://t.co/Uad9wNbt5H 14 May 2013
  • China: Guangdong Province revises policy preventing people with HIV from being teachers http://t.co/eKNqKH6YRy 14 May 2013
  • Greece: @zoemavroudi quotes sources saying health provision 39a, which enabled 2012 'sex workers' HIV criminalisation cases, to be repealed 14 May 2013
  • Advancing #HIV #Justice coming soon from @gnpplus and @hivjusticenet http://t.co/mYGhEEgj1S 10 May 2013
  • US: REPEAL ACT to modernise HIV criminalisation laws reintroduced by @RepBarbaraLee with bipartisan support http://t.co/XuwrnrKHai 08 May 2013
  • Australia: Is 'deliberate HIV transmission victim' impact statement true reality of living with HIV? http://t.co/6bbjd9rw7C #stigmaontrial 23 Apr 2013
  • Canada: Toronto police erroneously characterise HIV risk after gay one-night stand as “a toss of a coin” http://t.co/5wEAlZMwjl #HIVCan 23 Apr 2013
  • Grenada: Health Minister claims HIV-specific criminal law needed to prevent ‘deliberate’ transmission http://t.co/wbdNmDyqVj #HIVisnocrime 23 Apr 2013
  • Canada: Expert witness for prosecution, Robert Remis, subject of protest http://t.co/YU05H7WAB0 17 Apr 2013
  • Switzerland: Supreme Court rules that criminal HIV exposure/transmission no longer necessarily a serious assault http://t.co/ykcX3TuC2b 05 Apr 2013
  • Switzerland: Highest Court rules that §122 ('grievous bodily harm') no longer applies to criminal HIV transmission http://t.co/roKcFmd7cm 05 Apr 2013
  • Botswana: Draconian Public Health Bill allowing forced HIV testing, criminalisation provisions approved by Parliament http://t.co/FbpXkyoopH 05 Apr 2013
  • US: Constitutional 'equality' ideals leading to law that could harass, control, criminalise people with HIV in Kansas http://t.co/k3sJak4ptM 04 Apr 2013
  • Great piece on anti-criminalisation advocacy by @EdgeOnTheNet 'Advocates Urge Repeal of U.S. Laws Criminalizing HIV' http://t.co/4oDd0gZJCI 04 Apr 2013
  • Taiwan: Moral panic continues as gay man is indicted for alleged 'intentional' HIV transmission to many others http://t.co/Vy9UIvJypZ 04 Apr 2013
  • US: Minnesota Supreme Court to rule on HIV-specific criminal statute in State of Minnesota vs. Daniel James Rick http://t.co/aIky6wLmpV 03 Apr 2013

Adam BD et al. Effects of the criminalization of HIV transmission in Cuerrier on men reporting unprotected sex with men. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 23(1-2): 143-59, 2008.

Bennett R, Draper H, Frith L Ignorance is bliss? HIV and moral duties and legal duties to forewarn. Journal of Medical Ethics 26: 9-15, 2000.

Bourne A et al. Relative Safety II: risk and unprotected anal intercourse among gay men with diagnosed HIV. Sigma Research, London, 2009.

Duffin R Serostatus, risk and responsibility. Social Research Brief 6: 1-2, 2004.

Bernard EJ Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention: Technical Consultation Report. Tunisia: GNP+/UNAIDS 2009.

Galletly CL and Pinkerton SD Conflicting messages: how criminal HIV disclosure laws undermine public health efforts to control the spread of HIV. AIDS Behav. 10: 451-461, 2006.

Kalichman S Denying AIDS: conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and human tragedy. New York: Copernicus Books 2009.

Keogh P et al. Morality, Responsibility and Risk: gay men and proximity to HIV. London: Sigma Research 2006.

MacDonald A and Worth H Mad and bad: HIV infection, mental illness, intellectual disability, and the law. Sexuality Research & Social Policy 2 (2), 2005.

O'Leary A and Wolitski RJ Moral agency and the sexual transmission of HIV. Psychol Bull 135(3):478-94, 2009.

UNAIDS Opening up the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: guidance on encouraging beneficial disclosure, ethical partner counselling & appropriate use of HIV case-reporting. Geneva 2000.

UNAIDS/UNDP International Consultation on the Criminalization of HIV Transmission: summary of main issues and conclusions. Geneva 2008.

Weait M Intimacy and Responsibility: the criminalisation of HIV transmission. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge-Cavendish 2007.

WHO Gender Dimension of HIV Status Disclosure to Sexual Partners: rates, barriers and outcomes. A review paper. Geneva 2004.

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