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Arizona Bill Seeks to Criminalize Intentional STI Exposures

Representative Lela Alston (D–Phoenix) said she authored HB 2218 after hearing about a woman in her district who contracted an STI from a man who did not disclose to her. 

Published
30 January 2013
From
Poz magazine news
Sex workers
New WHO guidelines urge decriminalization of sex work

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines - titled 'Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries' - recommending, among other things, that countries should work towards decriminalizing sex work.

Published
19 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
HIV and criminal law
HIV trial: Two men willing to have sex despite risks, lawyer says

Two men were so “worked up” they would have had group sex with virtual strangers even if they had known they were HIV-positive, a lawyer argued Monday.

Published
19 December 2012
From
Waterloo Record
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), is shocked by the introduction of a Public Health Bill which our Parliament is currently debating. This Bill has some provisions that have no place in a democratic and modern day Botswana. It has provisions that are counter-productive, discriminatory, unconstitutional and barbaric.

Published
10 December 2012
From
International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS
HIV and criminal law
Netherlands: HIV injection retrial returns lower sentences

The two men jailed for infecting others with HIV at sex parties were sentenced to eight and five years in jail at their retrial on Thursday.

Published
03 December 2012
From
Dutch News
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Uganda: HIV/ Aids Bill Almost Ready

A joint civil society coalition, made up of more than 40 organisations, including human rights groups, has urged Parliament to review the clauses on mandatory testing of HIV, mandatory disclosure of a person's HIV status and the criminalisation of intentional spread of the disease.

Published
03 December 2012
From
All Africa
Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
Medical Technician Accused in Hepatitis C Infections Is Indicted on New Charges

A traveling medical technician who is believed to have infected at least 39 people with hepatitis C through his use of stolen hospital drugs and syringes was indicted late Wednesday in New Hampshire on 14 new charges.

Published
03 December 2012
From
New York Times
HIV and criminal law
Should Everyone HIV+ Be Required to Disclose That to Every Sexual Partner?

Forty-five U.S. states have made failure to do so a criminal offense. Two-thirds of HIV-positive adults are not aware of that.

Published
01 December 2012
From
The Atlantic
HIV and criminal law
The Alliance warns of criminalisation of transmission of HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean

In the last year in Latin America and in the Caribbean parliamentary initiatives have appeared that advocate the penalisation of non-disclosure of serological status and transmission. Countries that have passed new laws or reformed existing ones are: Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Ecuador.

Published
30 November 2012
From
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
African civil society calls on President Museveni to veto the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

The AIDS and Rights Alliance (ARASA), a partnership of over 60 civil society organisations working in southern Africa to promote a rights-based response to HIV and TB, calls on the President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, to take leadership and veto the passing of the Anti Homosexuality Bill.

Published
28 November 2012
From
ARASA
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