Thanks to your actions, the office of the Ministry of the Attorney General met with the Ontario Working Group on January 15, 2013, to discuss desperately needed prosecutorial guidelines. Crown counsel does not have to prosecute people who use condoms or have a low viral load, just because they can.
News from Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure
News curated from other sources

Canada: Decades of advocacy ignored as Canada rejects HIV criminalisation law reform
Why is the federal government still refusing to decriminalize HIV?
June 3, 2025

Mexico: HIV criminalisation in Tamaulipas fuels fear and discrimination
Activists in Tamaulipas denounce that criminalisation of HIV is an obstacle to health and human rights
June 2, 2025

US: PA House Committee considers bill to end HIV criminalization
Pennsylvania House committee hears testimony on bill to decriminalize HIV
June 2, 2025

[Update] US: Felony charges for intentional STD transmission one step closer in Louisiana
House committee votes in favor of STD criminalization bill with changes
May 29, 2025

Mexico: Lawmaker introduces initiative to repeal HIV criminalisation from criminal code
As it is obsolete and discriminatory, PRI proposes to eliminate the crime of “risk of contagion”
May 22, 2025
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