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[Video] Watch the entire Beyond Blame 2018: Challenging HIV Criminalisation symposium
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FOCUS ON EECA: Is Belarus the worst country in the world for HIV criminalisation?
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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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Belarus: Welcoming important developments in the fight against unjust HIV criminalisation
HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE along with our partners at The Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS and Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) welcome this week’s announcement of an amendment to Article 157 of the Criminal Code of the Republic … More
December 21, 2018 -
HIV JUSTICE TOOLKIT now available in French | Boîte à outils VIH JUSTICE maintenant disponible en français
[Scroll down for English] La version française de la boîte à outils de HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE visant à soutenir le plaidoyer contre la pénalisation du VIH est disponible en ligne. Les juristes et militants francophones qui luttent contre les lois … More
December 10, 2018 -
Kenya: Positive Justice campaign launched today to challenge unjust HIV-specific law
Today, on International Human Rights Day, the National Empowerment Network of People living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK) and the Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) have launched the Positive Justice campaign to finally end … More
December 10, 2018 -
Beyond Blame 2018 Meeting Report and Evaluation Now Available
Beyond Blame 2018: Challenging HIV Criminalisation was a one-day meeting for activists, advocates, judges, lawyers, scientists, healthcare professionals and researchers working to end HIV criminalisation. Held at the historic De Balie in Amsterdam, immediately preceding the 22nd International AIDS Conference … More
October 3, 2018 -
Bringing Science to Justice: End HIV Criminalisation Now
News Release Networks of people living with HIV and human rights and legal organisations worldwide welcome the Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law Amsterdam, July 25, 2018 — Today, 20 of the … More
July 25, 2018 -
HIV criminalisation high on the agenda at AIDS 2018
Starting today, thousands of activists, scientists, media and others working in the HIV sector will descend upon Amsterdam for the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018). For those of you able to be in Amsteram make sure you don’t miss … More
July 20, 2018 -
Final programme for Beyond Blame 2018 Now Online: Last few places available so register now!
Beyond Blame 2018: Challenging HIV Criminalisation is a one-day meeting for activists, advocates, lawyers, scientists, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and anyone else interested in working to end HIV criminalisation. The programme includes interactive panels, keynote presentations and parallel workshops focusing … More
July 11, 2018 -
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
News from other sources
US: Man living with HIV diagnosed as being in “altered mental state” charged for biting a police officer in emergency room in Chicago
HIV–positive man bit police officer, court records allege
US: Indiana considers bill modernising laws related to HIV to reflect current science
HIV Modernization Legislation Considered By Lawmakers
Singapore: Former police officer stands trial for allegedly engaging in sexual activity with sex-workers without disclosing his status
Ex–police officer convicted of having sex with prostitutes without informing them of HIV status
Brazil: Man living with HIV arrested for alleged HIV exposure
Man arrested accused of infecting women with HIV
St Vincent and the Grenadines: Following deportation of man jailed in Canada for alleged HIV transmission, prosecution service confirms existence of similar provision in SVG law
Persons who wilfully pass on HIV infection can be charged – Prosecutor
[Update] US: Despite current guidelines, State Attorney pushes for prison sentence for Pensacola Man charged with alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure
Pensacola man who knowingly spread HIV should go to prison, prosecutors argue
[Update]UK: Man sentenced to 32 months in South Devon for not disclosing his HIV status, a requirement from a previous court order
Serial love rat who infected gran, 82, with HIV jailed over new relationship
Belarus: 22-year-old woman under investigation in Minsk for alleged HIV exposure
В Минске 22–летняя девушка заведомо поставила своего парня в опасность заражения ВИЧ–инфекцией
[Update]Canada: New Federal guidelines leads Northwest Territories to drop sexual assault charge for alleged HIV non-disclosure against Nunavut man
Crown stays sex assault charges against HIV–positive man in Yellowknife
US: Military highest court confirms sailor’s convictions for sexual assault due to alleged HIV non-disclosure
Failure to tell partners about HIV–positive status made sex nonconsensual, military court rules
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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