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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

Discussion Guide for Mwayi’s Story now available

Press Release
2 December 2022

HIV Justice Academy now available in French
HIV Justice Academy est désormais disponible en français

Press Release
18 November 2022

HJN welcomes new Supervisory Board and Global Advisory Panel members

28 October 2022

Lesotho high court finds imposition of death sentence solely on the basis of HIV status unconstitutional

Press Release
27 October 2022

So many harms, so little benefit: a global review of the history and harms of HIV criminalisation

News
14 October 2022

Prepare for action!
with the new
HIV Justice Academy

Press Release
5 October 2022

When law and science part ways: the criminalization of breastfeeding by women living with HIV

Press Release
16 September 2022

Why people living with HIV should not be criminalised for donating blood

Press Release
2 September 2022

HIV criminalisation highlights at AIDS 2022

News
12 August 2022

Advancing HIV Justice 4: new report highlights more successes, continued challenges

Press Release
22 July 2022
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News curated from other sources

Russia: Court finds refusal to let migrant woman stay in Russia because of her HIV status unlawful

Кавказ.Реалии
17 November 2022

Mexico: LGBTQ+ community calling for the repeal of HIV criminalisation statute in Quintana Roo Public Health Law

La Verdad
10 November 2022

US: Pennsylvania’s governor signs bill subjecting people with a communicable disease to harsher penalties

PWN-USA / LGBTQ Nation
4 November 2022

US: Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) issues resolution on Molecular HIV Surveillance and Cluster Detection

PWN-USA
21 October 2022

Canada: Federal government opens its promised public consultation on HIV criminalisation law reform

The Lawyers Daily
21 October 2022

Canada: Federal government must review past criminal cases of HIV nondisclosure for possible wrongful convictions

The Star
13 October 2022

Uganda: Mandatory testing of people under arrest is contrary to the provisions of the Patients Charter and the Constitution of Uganda

Monitor
11 October 2022

Central African Republic: New HIV law focussing on the social protection of people living with HIV voted by parliamentarians

lopinionplus
11 October 2022

US: Indiana bipartisan legislative panel unanimously recommends scrapping most of the state’s HIV criminalisation laws

Indiana Digiltal News
5 October 2022

USA: New report from Williams Institute shows HIV-related arrests in Louisiana are disproportionately based on race

Los Angeles Blade
28 September 2022
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Featured resource

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

Kazakhstan: Man sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in jail for alleged HIV transmission

2 December 2022

Russia: 38-year-old woman gets one year suspended sentence for alleged HIV transmission

28 November 2022

Singapore: 32-year-old man with low viral load sentenced to jail for HIV non-disclosure

28 November 2022

Russia: Man sentenced to two years in a penal colony for alleged HIV transmission

24 November 2022

[Update]Canada: Johnson Aziga, the first person to be convicted of murder for HIV transmission, awaits appeal decision

22 November 2022

Russia: Doctor fined 60,000 roubles in criminal case initiated for negligence resulting in HIV infection

21 November 2022

Russia: Woman sentenced to one year in penal colony for alleged HIV transmission

21 November 2022

Russia: Woman under investigation for alleged HIV transmission

21 November 2022

Kazakhstan: Man under investigation in Akmola Region for alleged HIV transmission

16 November 2022

UK: 39 year-old man extradited from Jamaica and charged for alleged ‘reckless’ HIV transmission

5 November 2022
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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.