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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

Bill Would Lower HIV Criminal Penalties in Iowa

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Poz magazine news
27 February 2013
TB transmission & prevention

MISSOURI: Senate Passes Bill to Increase Tuberculosis Screenings and Penalize Spreading the Disease

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CDC National Prevention Information Network
21 February 2013
Experiences of stigma

The Increasingly Strange Case of Uncle Poodle

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My Fabulous Disease
19 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

No trial after all! Case against Norwegian prosecuted for HIV exposure via oral sex thrown out

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Blogspot
14 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

UK: Updated guidance on HIV transmission, the law and the work of the clinical team now published

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HIV Justice Network
13 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

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

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The Raw Story
12 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

Lawmaker wants to change HIV transmission law

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San Francisco Chronicle
4 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

Bill Would Revise Washington State HIV Criminal Law

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Poz magazine news
1 February 2013
HIV & criminal law

Effort to enforce HIV 'health threat' law raises questions

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Medical Xpress
31 January 2013
HIV & criminal law

Arizona Bill Seeks to Criminalize Intentional STI Exposures

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Poz magazine news
30 January 2013
Sex workers

New WHO guidelines urge decriminalization of sex work

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IRIN Plus News
19 December 2012
HIV & criminal law

HIV trial: Two men willing to have sex despite risks, lawyer says

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Waterloo Record
19 December 2012
News about aidsmap

The HIV Justice Network

News
12 December 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

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International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS
10 December 2012
HIV & criminal law

Netherlands: HIV injection retrial returns lower sentences

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Dutch News
3 December 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Uganda: HIV/ Aids Bill Almost Ready

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All Africa
3 December 2012
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Medical Technician Accused in Hepatitis C Infections Is Indicted on New Charges

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New York Times
3 December 2012
HIV & criminal law

Should Everyone HIV+ Be Required to Disclose That to Every Sexual Partner?

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The Atlantic
1 December 2012
HIV & criminal law

The Alliance warns of criminalisation of transmission of HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean

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International HIV/AIDS Alliance
30 November 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

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

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ARASA
28 November 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Young gay men with HIV in the UK worry about disclosure, transmission and prosecution – older ones about confidence and sex

News
7 November 2012
HIV & criminal law

The boundaries of HIV criminalization

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Ottawa Citizen
6 November 2012
HIV & criminal law

Crown prosecutor homophobic, says HIV-positive man convicted of attempted murder

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Ottawa Citizen
5 November 2012
HIV & criminal law

Jury convicts ‘poz vampire’ Boone of attempted murder

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Ottawa Citizen
2 November 2012