Showing 401 results

Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV Topic: Discrimination & the law

In some jurisdictions, punitive laws and policies increase people’s vulnerability to HIV. In other jurisdictions, the law protects human rights and defends people against unfair treatment in employment, in healthcare and when using services.

HIV & criminal law

Swiss Federal Supreme Court rules that criminal HIV exposure or transmission is no longer necessarily a serious assault

Editor's pick
HIV Justice Network
5 April 2013
HIV & criminal law

Kansas: Protection from quarantine for HIV, AIDS patients is discriminatory, state senator says

Editor's pick
Lawrence Journal-World
4 April 2013
Discrimination & the law

UK: Disability hate crime is 'overlooked and under-reported'

Editor's pick
BBC
21 March 2013
Social & legal issues

Commonwealth Charter: What is the Queen signing today?

Editor's pick
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
12 March 2013
Experiences of stigma

HIV positive jobseeker 'humiliated' by Kent job centre staff

Editor's pick
BBC News
20 February 2013
Experiences of stigma

HIV man loses restaurant loan 'for own protection'

Editor's pick
The Local.de
15 February 2013
Discrimination & the law

Justice Department Settles Three HIV Discrimination Cases

Editor's pick
AIDS.gov blog
15 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

President’s AIDS council calls on feds and states to repeal HIV criminalization laws

Editor's pick
The Raw Story
12 February 2013
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Uganda: Men Urged to Engage in HIV Fight

Editor's pick
New Vision
29 January 2013
Health services & systems

US: Suit claims health insurer discriminates against HIV/AIDS patients

Editor's pick
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
16 January 2013
Discrimination & the law

China’s mandate to hospitals reveals persistent discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients

Editor's pick
Health and Human Rights
9 January 2013
Employment

Outrage at Guangdong plan to ban teachers with HIV and STDs

Editor's pick
South China Morning Post
8 January 2013
Discrimination & the law

Israeli physicians could get green light to deny HIV treatment

Editor's pick
Haaretz
8 January 2013
Prisoners

Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With HIV

Editor's pick
New York Times
3 January 2013
Discrimination & the law

The Eurasian Coalition on Male Health urges the governments of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to stop the adoption of laws prohibiting `homosexual propaganda`

Editor's pick
EATG
12 December 2012
Employment

Qatar making progress fighting AIDS 'taboo'

Editor's pick
Al Jazeera
7 December 2012
Discrimination & the law

NYC Realtors Guilty of Discriminating Against People With AIDS

Editor's pick
Poz magazine news
6 December 2012
Discrimination & the law

HIV-positive Koreans worry about being shut out of employment

Editor's pick
The Hankyoreh
30 November 2012
Travel

Ahead of World AIDS Day CEOs call to end HIV travel restrictions

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
28 November 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

African civil society calls on President Museveni to veto the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

Editor's pick
ARASA
28 November 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Serbia man wins false HIV compensation

Editor's pick
The Nation
26 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

China bans hospitals from refusing patients with HIV-AIDS

Editor's pick
Xinhua
24 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

UK government decision to abolish equality impact assessments

Editor's pick
Disability Rights UK
21 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

China: Man hides HIV status to obtain surgery

Editor's pick
South China Morning Post
21 November 2012