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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.

Employment

Military Reverses Course on HIV+ People Serving Overseas

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OutServe
20 November 2012
Discrimination & the law

Nigeria: I Was Told I'll Die 17 Yrs Ago - HIV Positive Nurse

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AllAfrica
28 October 2012
Discrimination & the law

New bylaw to help HIV/AIDS patients

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Google Alerts HIV
18 September 2012
Discrimination & the law

US: Hershey School settles with boy denied admission because of HIV

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Philadelphia Inquirer
13 September 2012
Prisoners

Alabama could have avoided a lawsuit if it had stopped segregating HIV-positive inmates

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Birmingham News (editorial)
13 September 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
Young people

The Milton Hershey School apologizes to HIV-positive student

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Philadelphia Enquirer
7 August 2012
Discrimination & the law

Zimbabwe Woman Fights Conviction of Deliberately Transmitting HIV

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Voice of America
3 August 2012
Religion & faith

Catholic Church in Scotland: Society ‘should not facilitate gay relationships’

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Pink News
27 July 2012
Employment

HIV Employment Discrimination Still an Issue in US, UK

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POZ
27 July 2012
Human rights

U.S. ban unites global sex workers at Indian festival

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Reuters
27 July 2012
Treatment for women

Are hospitals safe for women living with HIV?

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50.50
25 July 2012
Human rights

Minister talks about gay marriage in Vietnam

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Gay Star News
25 July 2012
Human rights

Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland

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BBC
25 July 2012
Human rights

The women Greece blames for its HIV crisis

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The Independent
25 July 2012
Finance & funding

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Faces Major Funding Cuts

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Postitive Lite
24 July 2012
Discrimination & the law

USA: banning people with HIV from attending the AIDS 2012 conference

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50.50
18 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
Travel

Republic of Moldova lifts travel restrictions for people living with HIV, strengthens protections against discrimination

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UNAIDS
24 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

Controversial AIDS law passed in Dominican Republic

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International HIV/AIDS Alliance
21 June 2012
Experiences of stigma

UK border control slammed for gay HIV paedo outburst

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Gay Star News
18 June 2012
HIV & criminal law

State vs. Plunkett: New York Court of Appeals Says HIV+ Man’s Saliva Is Not a “Dangerous Instrument”

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The Center for HIV Law & Policy
8 June 2012