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UK: New research calls for better guidance for HIV service providers on criminal law, confidentiality and ethics
Yesterday saw the release of an important new UK study, Keeping Confidence: HIV and the criminal law from service provider perspectives, which explores how HIV criminalisation impacts those who deliver health and social care services for people with HIV. The … More
US: New Study Questions Michigan’s “Health Threat” Law (Press Release)
Michigan health officials are using HIV surveillance technologies to assist in enforcing a “health threat” law that makes it illegal for HIV-positive people to have sex without disclosing their status. A new University of Michigan study reveals that health officials … More
US: Sero Project to present new data on harm of HIV criminalisation to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA)
Tomorrow, Thursday October 25th, the Sero Project, a human rights organisation comprised of people living with HIV who seek to end inappropriate criminal prosecutions for HIV non-disclosure or for potential or perceived HIV exposure or transmission, will present new data … More
Video: Seminar on HIV Criminalisation, Berlin, 20 September 2012 (EATG/DAH/IPPF/HIV in Europe)
This international conference on the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, potential or perceived HIV exposure and non-intentional HIV transmission took place at the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin on 20th September 2012. HIV advocates, law and human rights experts and other concerned … More
Canada: Study finds HIV criminalisation creates uncertainty, fear, and vulnerability
Last week’s devastating ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada was quick to dismiss evidence that that HIV criminalisation was damaging to public health. ”The only ‘evidence’ was studies presented by interveners suggesting that criminalization ‘probably’ acts as a deterrent … More
US: Study finds criminalising alleged HIV non-disclosure an ineffective HIV prevention tool
A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health by the leading US researcher into the impacts of HIV criminalisation, Carol Galletly J.D. and Ph.D., of the Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, … More
HIV Criminalisation Discourages HIV Testing, Creates Disabling and Uncertain Legal Environment for People with HIV in U.S. (Press Release)
The SERO Project: National Criminalization Survey Washington, D.C. July 25, 2012 Preliminary data from the Sero Project’s ground-breaking survey of more than two thousand people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the U.S., released July 25, 2012, at the International AIDS … More
HIV criminalisation at AIDS 2012 (updated July 23)
The main focus of the International AIDS Conference, taking place right now in Washington DC until July 29th might not be the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, potential exposure and transmission, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of sessions, meetings … More
Global Commission on HIV and the Law: an analysis of their HIV criminalisation recommendations
Today, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law finally issued its long-awaited report, ‘HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights and Health.’ It was well worth the wait. “Fundamentally unjust, morally harmful, and virtually impossible to enforce with any semblance … More
Norway: Prof. Matthew Weait delivers stirring clarion call to recognise harm of HIV criminalisation
Yesterday Professor Matthew Weait, Professor of Law and Policy at Birkbeck College, University of London delivered a stirring lecture to the public health professionals involved in implementing Norway’s HIV strategy. As Norway is currently reconsidering its criminal code as it … More
