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Making Media Work for HIV Justice: An introduction to media engagement for advocates opposing HIV criminalisation
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HIV JUSTICE Toolkit to support advocacy against HIV criminalisation now online
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New video toolkit: How to organise to change the law - the story of the Colorado Mod Squad
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Learn more about the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE movement
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Leave No One Behind: Lessons from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
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Justice Edwin Cameron's keynote speech to Beyond Blame @AIDS 2016
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[Video and report] Beyond Blame @ AIDS 2016: Challenging HIV Criminalisation
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'HIV IS NOT A CRIME' II Training Academy (Huntsville, Alabama) - the video documentary
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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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[Video] More HARM Than GOOD: How overly broad HIV criminalisation is hurting public health
HIV Justice News
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Mexico: Supreme Court finds Veracruz law criminalising ‘wilful transmission’ of HIV and STIs to be unconstitutional
Following a Constitutional challenge initiated in February 2016 by the Multisectoral Group on HIV / AIDS and STIs of Veracruz and the National Commission on Human Rights, and supported by HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice yesterday found … More
May 1, 2018 -
New Toolkit Supports Advocates in Using Media to Fight for HIV Justice
When it comes to the widely misunderstood, complex issue of HIV criminalisation, media can be a powerful tool–or a blunt-force weapon. And so today, as people around the world living with HIV continue to be criminalised and convicted at alarming … More
March 14, 2018 -
Important new resource, SALC’s HIV Criminalisation Defence Case Compendium, published this week
An important new resource for lawyers defending clients and working on strategic litigation was published by the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) this week. SALC is one of the newest members of HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE Steering Committee. The HIV Criminalisation … More
February 15, 2018 -
US: SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy Registration is Open (Press Release)
SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy Registration is Open February 5, 2018: SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network – USA are excited to announce that registration is now open for … More
February 6, 2018 -
Malawi: Human Rights Activists celebrate adoption of amended HIV Law that removes rights-infringing provisions (Press Release)
PRESS RELEASE 28 November 2017 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CELEBRATE MALAWI’S ADOPTION OF AMENDED HIV LAW THAT REMOVES RIGHTS-INFRINGING PROVISIONS Lilongwe – On Tuesday, 28 November, Malawi Members of Parliament voted to reject coercive and criminalising provisions that threatened human rights … More
November 28, 2017 -
Mexico: First Spanish language ‘HIV is Not A Crime’ meeting leads to new Network and impressive early results
In October 2017 the first Spanish-language ‘HIV Is Not A Crime’ meeting took place in Mexico City, supported by the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition. The two-day meeting brought together people living with HIV, activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and academics … More
November 22, 2017 -
HIV JUSTICE Toolkit to support advocacy against HIV criminalisation now online
HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE today announced the launch of the HIV Justice Toolkit, which aims to support advocates to oppose HIV criminalisation at all levels – from educating communities and lawmakers to defending individual cases. Curated by Sally Cameron, Senior Policy … More
October 5, 2017 -
Brazil: Activists celebrate as ‘deliberate HIV transmission’ law amendment is withdrawn
Yesterday, news broke that populist Congressman, Pompeo de Mattos, has withdrawn an amendment originally proposed in 2015 to make ‘deliberate’ HIV transmission a ‘heinous crime’. The amendment, Bill No. 198, 2015, would have added to the list of heinous crimes … More
September 1, 2017 -
US: Center for HIV Law and Policy releases updated ‘HIV Criminalization Sourcebook’
Today, the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has released a third, updated version of their ‘Ending and Defending Against HIV Criminalization: State and Federal Laws and Prosecutions’ series, first published in 2010. The renamed HIV Criminalization in the … More
August 30, 2017 -
US: Advocates launch Consensus Statement on HIV “Treatment as Prevention” in Criminal Law Reform
Yesterday saw the launch of a Consensus Statement on HIV “Treatment as Prevention” in Criminal Law Reform, to provide guidance for efforts to reform or “modernize” HIV-specific laws across the United States. The concern, as highlighted by Charles King, President … More
July 14, 2017
News from other sources
[Update]US: Mississippi man who served time for alleged HIV exposure arrested again
Mississippi Man Charged With Knowingly Spreading HIV
[Update] Mexico: Congress considers the Supreme Court decision to invalidate Veracruz HIV criminalisation statute
AVC Noticias – SCJN invalida artículo que castiga contagio de infecciones de transmisión sexual
Zimbabwe: Parliamentarian calls for repeal of HIV criminalisation law
Spreading HIV To Your Own Partner A Crime But …
US: HIV criminalisation survivor David Plunkett dies aged 54
In Memory of HIV Criminalization Survivor David Plunkett
Paul Kidd’s plenary about HIV, consent and the Criminal Law
HIV Consent and the criminal law
[update]Sweden: Supreme Court reviews HIV criminalisation case
Överklagat ärende om hiv togs upp i Högsta domstolen
[update]Paraguay: One case provisionally dismissed against man facing 9 charges of alleged HIV transmission
Sobreseen a abogado que transmitió VIH a mujeres
International meeting of legal experts starts work on principles to address the misuse and abuse of criminal laws
Addressing the detrimental health and human rights impacts of criminal laws
UK: New research confirms HIV cannot be transmitting through spitting and risks from biting are negligible
HIV cannot be transmitted by spitting, and risk from biting is negligible, says detailed case review
Canada: Recent case in British Columbia demonstrates the “cycle of fear, stigma and misinformation surrounding HIV”
Misinformation is the real culprit in British Columbia HIV case
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We Love Positive Women #lovepositivewomen
We Love 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 the criminal … More
February 14, 2018 -
After two years of our coalition, we’re really getting somewhere: here’s to even more HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE in 2018! by Edwin J Bernard Global Co-ordinator, HIV Justice Network / HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE
In September, three HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE founding members – Laurel Sprague, Executive Director of the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+), Lynette Mabote, Regional Programmes Lead at ARASA and I – presented at the Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) … More
December 19, 2017 -
Letter demanding release of 13 individuals arrested during legal consultation in Tanzania
October 23, 2017 Hon. George Mcheche Masaju Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania Email: g.masaju@bunge.go.tz; ag@agctz.go.tz Hon. Bahame T.M. Nyanduga Chairperson, Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance United Republic of Tanzania Email: bahame.nyanduga@chragg.go.tz Hon. Adv. Pansy Tlakula … More
October 23, 2017 -
Remarks delivered by Edwin J Bernard at ‘Leave No One Behind: Lessons from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law for Agenda 2030′
Today, at a side meeting convened the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during the High-Level Political Forum, HIV Justice Network’s Global Co-ordinator, Edwin J Bernard, delivered the following remarks. Despite the incredible advances in the science of HIV treatment and … More
July 14, 2017 -
“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