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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

'Swedish law must shed its HIV prejudice'

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The Local.se
22 October 2013
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Australia: Offenders face forced blood tests to protect police

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news.com.au
16 October 2013
HIV & criminal law

Research at the medico-legal borderland: perspectives on HIV and criminal law

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Somatosphere
15 October 2013
HIV & criminal law

Rhoades' conviction under HIV transmission law will stand, Iowa Court of Appeals rules

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Des Moines Register
3 October 2013
HIV & criminal law

Switzerland: Yes to the Epidemics Act: discrimination in penal cases against people with HIV eliminated.

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Positive Council
26 September 2013
HIV & criminal law

Iowa appeals court hears criminal HIV transmission case

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USA Today
13 September 2013
Experiences of stigma

Criminalization of People with HIV: Reaction to a breaking story in Ohio

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Treatment Science Writers
13 September 2013
Human rights

‘Ruins’ – the 2012 HIV sweeps in Greece and what came next

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Ekathimerini
12 September 2013
HIV & criminal law

VIDEO: Overly broad HIV criminalisation is doing more harm than good

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HIV Justice Network
11 September 2013
HIV & criminal law

Woman With HIV Not Guilty of Assault for Oral Sex in Canada

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Poz magazine news
27 August 2013
HIV & criminal law

State Supreme Court: HIV-positive man wrongly convicted of passing disease

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Minneapolis Star Tribune
22 August 2013
HIV & criminal law

Zimbabwe: Killed for Refusing to Take ARVs

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AllAfrica
21 August 2013
HIV & criminal law

UK: NAT (National AIDS Trust) produces new guide for police on occupational exposure to HIV

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National AIDS Trust
16 August 2013
HIV & criminal law

US: House Appropriations Committee passes amendment that would fund review of HIV-specific criminal laws

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HIV Justice Networkl
16 August 2013
Sex workers

‘I felt so bad, so violated. I’ve never been so humiliated in my life’: Women who work in Edinburgh’s saunas talk to SCOT-PEP about their experience of the recent raids.

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SCOT PEP
14 August 2013
Experiences of stigma

Women with HIV feel 'under surveillance' during pregnancy and early motherhood

News
19 July 2013
HIV & criminal law

Greece: Reinstatement of controversial Health Provision slammed by HIV and Human Rights Groups

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Radiobubble.gr
9 July 2013
Prisoners

To cut STD rate, Calif considers condoms in prison

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SFGate
8 July 2013
HIV & criminal law

Swedish man convicted of spreading HIV to pay $90000 in damages

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GlobalPost
29 June 2013
Economic & social inequality

HIV Is Not a PR Stunt for Marriage Equality

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Huffington Post
25 June 2013
HIV & criminal law

Is this the end of HIV-criminalization in the military?

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Salon
17 June 2013
HIV & criminal law

Advances Worldwide in Advocacy Against HIV Criminalization

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Poz magazine news
10 June 2013
HIV & criminal law

US: Immigration Court rules in favor of HIV-positive man facing deportation

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San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
10 June 2013
Human rights

AIDS laws in Asia and the Pacific are failing to protect those most vulnerable

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United Nations Development Programme
30 May 2013