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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.   

HIV & criminal law

Unjust Supreme Court Ruling on Criminalization of HIV Major Step Backwards for Public Health and Human Rights

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Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
5 October 2012
HIV & criminal law

HIV disclosure can be waived under certain conditions: top court

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Globe & Mail
5 October 2012
HIV & criminal law

Spitting at cops doesn't lead to diseases, judge says

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CBC
2 October 2012
Taking an HIV test

Canada: Protecting your privacy around HIV

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Xtra
28 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

AIDS groups go after Ontario attorney general

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Xtra
20 September 2012
Experiences of stigma

Man kills girlfriend for revealing she was HIV positive

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USA Today
11 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

Maryland man faces rarely used HIV transmission charges

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The Washington Post
10 September 2012
HIV prevention policy

Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men

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IPS
10 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

Australia: ‘Reasonable precautions’ defence welcomed

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Gay News Network
3 September 2012
HIV & criminal law

Swiss acupuncturist charged in 16 HIV infections between 2001 and 2005

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Washington Post
31 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

A Free Man: HIV+ man, David Plunkett Finally Released after being wrongly convicted for biting police officer

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The Body
22 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

People with HIV fear unfair treatment in courts

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American Independent
10 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

Fearing advocacy, Ottawa rejects HIV/AIDS funding proposals - Globe and Mail

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Globe and Mail
7 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

Zimbabwe Woman Fights Conviction of Deliberately Transmitting HIV

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Voice of America
3 August 2012
HIV & criminal law

Imprisoned over HIV: One man's story

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CNN
2 August 2012
Finance & funding

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Faces Major Funding Cuts

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Postitive Lite
24 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Zimbabwe: Deliberate Transmission of HIV Hard to Prove

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AllAfrica
14 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Global Commission on HIV and the Law: an analysis of their HIV criminalisation recommendations

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Criminal HIV Transmission
9 July 2012
HIV & criminal law

Nondisclosure of HIV status should be decriminalized: report

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Toronto Star
9 July 2012
Discrimination & the law

How evidence and human rights based laws can end an epidemic of bad laws and transform the global AIDS response!

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Global Commission on HIV and the Law
9 July 2012
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Take the Test and Risk Arrest?

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Poz
27 June 2012
People who inject drugs

Failed war on drugs feeding HIV/AIDS, former leaders say

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CBC
26 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Ontario Crown Prosecutors on Witch-Hunt: PHAs Must Always Disclose HIV Status before Sex or Face Imprisonment

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AIDS Action Now
26 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

New AIDS Law Criminalizes HIV in Dominican Republic

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Poz magazine news
24 June 2012