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The Global HIV Criminalisation Database

The Global HIV Criminalisation Database consolidates three databases in one: regularly updated information and analysis of HIV criminalisation laws; a regularly updated searchable global database of reported HIV criminalisation cases; and a directory of organisations around the world actively working against HIV criminalisation.
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Advancing HIV Justice 4: Understanding Commonalities, Seizing Opportunities

Our latest in the Advancing HIV Justice series, published in July 2022, provides a progress report of achievements and challenges in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation.

News by the HIV Justice Network

New HIV Justice Academy content: Lessons from the Central African Republic’s HIV law reform success

Feature
2 June 2023

New EECA HIV criminalisation report shows women living with HIV bear the brunt of “legalised stigma”

News
14 April 2023

Transgender Day of Visibility 2023

Opinion
31 March 2023

An important new advocacy tool for HIV justice

News
10 March 2023

On Zero Discrimination Day:
law reform is not easy, but it’s possible

Opinion
1 March 2023

Two significant days in the HIV justice calendar

News
24 February 2023

Celebrating love and advocacy this Valentine’s Day

Opinion
10 February 2023

Thought-provoking new report from Canada on alternatives to HIV criminalisation

News
27 January 2023

Russia: Most HIV clinicians support HIV criminalisation

News
13 January 2023

2022 in review: A turning point for HIV justice?

Opinion
16 December 2022
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News curated from other sources

US: Tennessee changes its criminal exposure law

CHLP
23 May 2023

Uganda: Bill retaining death penalty for having gay sex when HIV positive sent back to President for signing

Reuters
3 May 2023

US: Bill to reform Indiana HIV criminalisation law fails to clear the state’s Senate

The Body
18 April 2023

Kenya: People living with HIV will continue to lobby for change after disappointing High Court decision

KELIN Kenya
3 April 2023

UK: New Crown Prosecution Service guidance on cases of alleged HIV transmission states that undetectable viral load stops HIV transmission

aidsmap
3 April 2023

Kazakhstan: 0.1% of people diagnosed with HIV in 2022 filed a report for alleged HIV transmission

inbusiness.kz
29 March 2023

Mexico: Civil society urges Supreme Court to rule against the constitutionality of law penalising HIV or STI exposure

Diario rotativo
11 March 2023

Mexico: Nayarit congress repeals laws criminalising the transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases

NTV+
10 March 2023

New principles lay out human rights-based approach to criminal law

UNAIDS
9 March 2023

US: Bill put forward in Minnesota would repeal HIV criminalisation law

Minnesota Reformer
24 February 2023
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HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE Steering Committee Statement on COVID-19 Criminalisation

Communicable diseases are public health issues, not criminal issues: what we have learnt from the HIV response. Measures that are respectful of human rights and the empowering of communities are more effective than punishment and imprisonment. The statement is available in English, French, Russian and Spanish.
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Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law

This key statement was co-authored by 20 of the world’s leading HIV scientists to describe current evidence on HIV transmission, treatment effectiveness and forensics so that HIV-related science may be better understood in criminal law contexts. Learn more about the statement and read answers to Frequently Asked Questions here.

HIV criminalisation cases

Australia: 32-year-old man sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for biting police officer

9 June 2023

UK: Man charged with grievous bodily harm for alleged HIV transmission sentenced to three years and four months in Leeds

7 June 2023

US: 22-year-old charged in Ohio for alleged HIV non-disclosure

5 June 2023

[Update]Ireland: Man sentenced to 10-year for alleged HIV transmission granted appeal to the Supreme Court

26 May 2023

Russia: Case of HIV non-disclosure in Nizhny Novgorod dropped after partner petitions the court

25 May 2023

Tajikistan: 52-year-old woman arrested for alleged HIV transmission

19 May 2023

Russia: Criminal case opens against Korsakovo’s resident for alleged HIV transmission

18 May 2023

UK: Man placed under GPS monitoring and given suspended sentence for breaching Sexual Risk Order

5 May 2023

[Update]US: Nushawn Williams loses his latest appeal to be released from custody

4 May 2023

Singapore: Man living with HIV sentenced to 3 months and 2 weeks in jail for donating blood

3 May 2023
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Together we can make HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE a reality!

The HIV Justice Network serves as the secretariat for a global coalition campaigning for HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE. Visit www.hivjusticeworldwide.org (also available in French, Russian, and Spanish) to learn more about what we do, and how you can join the movement to end HIV criminalisation.