Satellite meeting

Criminalisation of HIV exposure and transmission

This satellite meeting, held in Vienna on the 18th July, was co-organised by NAM, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.

You can view the whole session, with presentations, here:

Thanks to www.georgetownmedia.de for filming and editing.

The videos are also available at: www.vimeo.com/album/264885.

The purpose of the meeting:

  • To understand where and how laws and prosecutions are happening;
  • To hear how different solutions to complex issues are being found in the international arena, in national policy, and in case law judgments; and
  • To explore pragmatic advocacy strategies in order to move towards the goal of decriminalisation.

Co-chairs:

Speakers:

HIV and the criminal law

NAM published an extensive resource, HIV and the criminal law, written by Edwin J Bernard.

You can read it online at www.aidsmap.com/law.

Edwin was interviewed during the conference by Mark S King for his video blog. Edwin's segment is available in Mark's blogpost 'AIDS 2010 Opening Day: Sex, Drugs, and Annie Lennox'.