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Proudly announcing Laurel Sprague’s appointment as Executive Director of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)
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Learn more about the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE movement
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[Blog] A love letter from us to women living with HIV who are actively fighting for justice and against discriminatory legal systems around the world
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[Blog] Your Sentence is Not My Freedom: Feminism, HIV Criminalisation and Systems of Stigma, by Laurel Sprague
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[Blog] Why HIV criminalisation matters to discussions on gender, human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV, by Evgenia Maron
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[Video and report] Beyond Blame @ AIDS 2016: Challenging HIV Criminalisation
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[Report] Advancing HIV Justice 2: Building momentum in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation
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[Guidance] UNAIDS: Ending overly broad HIV criminalisation
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Oslo Declaration on HIV Criminalisation. Have you read and signed it yet?
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[Peer-reviewed article] Ending overly broad HIV criminalization: Canadian scientists and clinicians stand for justice
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[Video] More HARM Than GOOD: How overly broad HIV criminalisation is hurting public health
HIV Justice News
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Register now for ARASA’s Online HIV Criminalisation Course in June-July 2017
Next month, ARASA will host an short online course on HIV criminalisation for civil society, policymakers, religious leaders, healthcare providers and law enforcement officials. The course is free, takes place in English, willl last six weeks (5 June 2017 – 14 July … More
May 18, 2017 -
US: 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana (Press Release)
SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy in Indianapolis May 15, 2017: Building on the amazing success of the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy last year, the … More
May 15, 2017 -
US: Florida State Senate Committee Supports Public Health Measure To Modernize HIV Laws (Press Release)
Press release from the Sero Project Tallahassee March 22, 2017 The Florida HIV Justice Coalition today applauded members of the Florida State Senate’s Criminal Justice Committee for voting unanimously yesterday in favor of Senate Bill 628. SB 628 will modernize … More
March 22, 2017 -
Nigeria: On Zero Discrimination Day, Coalition of Lawyers for Human Rights strongly denounce judicial HIV stigma in ongoing child custody case (Press release)
Breach of HIV status confidentiality and discrimination by the Hon Justice Olagunju of the Oyo State Judiciary Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. March 1, 2017. Coalition of Lawyers for Human Rights, COLaHR, is a Coalition of Human Rights Lawyers working on … More
March 1, 2017 -
Russia: Government to examine possibility of removing HIV-specific criminal law and broadening prosecutions to all serious communicable diseases under general ‘bodily harm’ laws
The Russian government is considering removing Article 122 (Infection with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) from the Criminal Code, according to an article published earlier this month on the RBC website. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets has instructed a number of ministries … More
February 28, 2017 -
US: HIV Court Nightmare Ends For Olympian Darren Chiacchia (Press Release)
Photo by Bob Carey HIV Court Nightmare Ends For Olympian Darren Chiacchia, Ocala, FL – 2/19/17 2004 Olympic medalist, 2003 Pan American Games gold medalist, and 2004 Rolex Kentucky CCI**** victor, Darren Chiacchia of Ocala, FL and Springville, NY, has … More
February 20, 2017 -
Canada: Toronto’s ‘Now’ weekly newspaper prominently features HIV criminalisation impact, advocacy and advocates
This week, Toronto’s weekly newspaper, ‘Now’, features four articles on HIV criminalisation and its impact in Canada. The lead article, ‘HIV is not a crime’ is written from the point of view of an HIV-negative person who discovers a sexual … More
January 13, 2017 -
[Press release] Activists call on leaders to protect human rights and stop imposing criminal sanctions against people living with HIV and TB
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2016, 10 DECEMBER 2016: Windhoek, Namibia, 09 December 2016: On the eve of International Human Rights Day 2016, the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), a partnership of 106 organisations working in 18 countries … More
December 9, 2016 -
Social Science Update: Where criminalisation of sex work intersects with HIV criminalisation
In this article, authors Sienna Baskin, Aziza Ahmed, and Anna Forbes examine the interlocking webs of anti-prostitution laws and HIV criminalisation. Throughout the piece, the authors demonstrate critical research ethics by taking, as their starting point, the lives, freedom, and dignity of sex … More
November 24, 2016 -
Social Science Update: Review of HIV criminalisation research in the US, 1990-2014
An article reviewing 15 years of U.S.-based social science research on HIV criminalisation was published in the September 2016 issue of AIDS and Behavior. The research team, led by Dini Harsono of Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS … More
November 23, 2016
News from other sources
South Korea: Women living with HIV reluctant to report sexual assault, because of prejudices against people with HIV in the legal system and HIV criminalisation law
Discrimination against people with HIV rampant: UN study
UK: Yusef Azad of the National AIDS Trust calls for an end to HIV being used in court to emphasise the seriousness of a crime when it has no relevance to it
The "HIV Panic" attack – from prosecution to persecution
Canada: 27 year old Toronto man faces second aggravated sexual assault charge for alleged HIV non-disclosure
New charge laid against Toronto man who police allege did not disclose HIV status
Israel: 24 year old migrant from Guinea arrested by Israeli police for alleged HIV transmission
Illegal migrant arrested on suspicion of infecting girlfriend with HIV
Canada: Rob Olver from Positive Lite magazine gives an overview of the Rethinking Justice Symposium
Rethinking Justice with Renewed Hope
Canada: Positive Lite interviews Edwin J. Bernard, Global coordinator of the HIV Justice Network
Criminalization of HIV non–disclosure: is the tide turning?
US: The Body reviews the latest development in HIV criminalisation in the United States
What’s New in HIV Criminalization in the United States: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
US: Prison inmate in Michigan on trial for alleged HIV non-disclosure despite his partner retracting his earlier statement under cross-examination
Trial for inmate who allegedly didn’t tell HIV status before prison sex
Mexico: Organisations call for the withdrawal of initiative aiming to criminalise HIV-transmission in Quintana Roo
Le Llaman la atención a Diputada Beristain: Piden asociaciones detener iniciativa de penalización del VIH
Canada: People of African, Caribbean and black descent over-represented in the mainstream media coverage of HIV non-disclosure.
Skewed Stories: Race and HIV Criminalization in the Media
@hivjusticenet on Twitter
Thanks to @TheAgenda and @namshine for covering this important topic so thoroughly and empathetically… https://t.co/7QOzWVxrO920 June 2017 1:47pm - retweet- Our Global Co-ordinator @edwinjbernard is interviewed in @PositiveliteCom about the future of #HIVcrim in Canada https://t.co/xT7fvTLKmO20 June 2017 12:56pm - retweet
Canada leads the pack in prosecuting people for not disclosing their HIV status. Some say that’s the wrong approach… https://t.co/EZ3KCFNZQX19 June 2017 5:34pm - retweet- "[It] casts a shadow over all people living with HIV." — @AIDSLAW's Richard Elliott, on criminalization of HIV non-… https://t.co/rFjpJKxrUw19 June 2017 7:07pm - retweet
- "Canada is the only the country in the world that frames HIV non-disclosures as sexual assault." — @edwinjbernard,… https://t.co/OX7k2DwsDw19 June 2017 8:13pm - retweet
- So proud of fierce HIV criminalisation survivor, Chad, who kicked ass today! #HIVcrim #HIVisnotacrime https://t.co/vanfnfyzM115 June 2017 6:37pm - retweet
- Thank you for your leadership. We need to make Canada a world leader in doing HIV justice, not in HIV criminalisati… https://t.co/5OCuCHi7na15 June 2017 5:34pm - retweet
.@marcomendicino speaking to the crowd at the @AIDSLAW symposium. "We have a long way to go...in reforming the law.… https://t.co/EVpDIvU2xM15 June 2017 2:01pm - retweet
Day of learning about HIV Criminalization. Marco Mendicino from @JusticeCanadaEN says #HIV is not a crime #HIVcrim https://t.co/teLVPLPKGU15 June 2017 2:08pm - retweet
.@marcomendicino: "Nondisclosure of HIV status is a public health issue" - criminal law should be a last resort #HIVcrim15 June 2017 2:08pm - retweet
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“GNP+’s gain is also HJN’s gain”: proudly announcing Laurel Sprague’s appointment as Executive Director of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)
Today, we are proud to announce that Laurel Sprague, PhD, our Global Research Fellow on HIV, Gender, and Justice has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+). Laurel will join … More
April 3, 2017 -
Love Positive Women
Let’s hear it for Positive Women! This is a love letter from the HIV Justice Network to the more than 18,000,000 women living with HIV in the world today. The HIV Justice Network exists to end the inappropriate use of … More
February 14, 2017 -
HIV Criminalisation: Legal Violence and the Lives of People Living with HIV, by Alexander McClelland
Criminal Charges for HIV Non-disclosure, Exposure and Transmission: Legal Violence and the Lives of People Living with HIV The following is an edited version of remarks presented by Alexander McClelland as part of ‘The Movement to End HIV Criminalization’ … More
December 14, 2016 -
Why advocacy against HIV criminalisation must be part of discussions on gender, human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV, by Evgenia Maron
Earlier this week, I attended a meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, convened by UNAIDS and UN Women entitled ‘Leave No One Behind: Bringing needs and priorities of women living with HIV into policies and actions’. Here, NGOs, community members, governments and human … More
December 7, 2016 -
Every theory has a human price: Ethical research is collaborative research, by Laurel Sprague
Remarks written for the Haverford College Research Ethics Symposium, 21 October 2016, by Laurel Sprague, Research Fellow in HIV, Gender, and Justice, HIV Justice Network. Every theory has a human price: Ethical research is collaborative research [Introduction] Every theory has … More
November 23, 2016 -
Your Sentence is Not My Freedom: Feminism, HIV Criminalisation and Systems of Stigma, by Laurel Sprague
Remarks written for the “Movement to End HIV Criminalisation” panel at Concordia University, Montreal, 15 September 2016, by Laurel Sprague, Research Fellow in HIV, Gender, and Justice, HIV Justice Network. Before beginning my remarks, allow me to note that … More
October 31, 2016 -
HIV criminalisation: another form of violence against women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, by Evgenia Maron
Русский текст читайте, пожалуйста, ниже Today, Sunday, October 23, 2016, Positive Women’s Network – USA observes the third National Day of Action to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV. This is an event to create awareness about the levels … More
October 23, 2016 -
HIV Stigma: Terrorising women in Russia’s traditional societies, by Evgenia Maron
Русский текст читайте, пожалуйста, ниже On May 30 this year, a publication appeared in the Russian media with a sensational headline: in Dagestan, police stated that unknown men killed a woman after suspecting her of transmitting HIV to others. Without … More
October 10, 2016 -
Poster Action at AIDS 2016, by Laurel Sprague Ph.D. Global Research Fellow on HIV, Gender, and Justice, HIV Justice Network
(R-L) Paul Kidd, Trevor Hoppe, Edwin Bernard and Nicholas Feustel in front of some of the many posters on HIV criminalisation presented at AIDS 2016 Participants at AIDS 2016 saw a remarkable number of posters on HIV criminalisation … More
September 8, 2016 -
Working with the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS: Increased commitments towards enabling legal environments, by Laurel Sprague
By Laurel Sprague Ph.D. Global Research Fellow on HIV, Gender, and Justice, HIV Justice Network As the dust settles from the 2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, our communities need to take stock of where we are now and … More
July 8, 2016