Search results for jan albert

Showing 8 of 8 results

Sweden: Jan Albert from the Karolinska Institute reports on HIV Criminalisation in Sweden

22 June 2015

On a crossroads – Sweden’s view on the criminalization of HIV BY ANNA-MARIA SÖRBERG REPORTAGE 15-06-22 “We need to disagree with what is humanly reasonable and what is prosecutable. It says infectious prophet Jan Albert hoping for continued decriminalization of people living with HIV. Ottar…

Sweden: Supreme Court refuses to rule on treatment’s impact on HIV risk even as a second Court of Appeal judgement recognises latest science

25 September 2014

Last week, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it would not grant leave to appeal in a case where the prosecution had appealed an acquittal from Court of Appeal regarding a man living with HIV, on successful antiretroviral therapy, who had…

Sweden: Court of Appeal acquits ‘HIV exposure’ case, recognises National Board of Health and Welfare endorsement of ‘Swiss statement’, Minister for Social Affairs will consider reviewing application of law

29 October 2013

Today, the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge has acquitted a man from Malmö previously convicted of exposing four women to HIV on the grounds that since he had a stable undetectable viral load on antiretrovirall treatment with no…

Sweden: Majority of MPs want to reform HIV disclosure obligation and ‘HIV exposure’ criminal liability

4 October 2012

Two articles commemorating 30 years of HIV in Sweden in Svenska Dagbladet by journalist Tobias Brandel suggest that public – and political – opinion is being positively impacted by a two-year campaign by RFSU (the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education),…

Global: Powerful personal testimony and video highlight criminalisation concerns

30 November 2010

IPPF (the International Planned Parenthood Association) has been campaigning against the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, alleged exposure and non-intentional transmission for the past few years, and this World AIDS Day they are highlighting their ‘Criminalise Hate Not HIV’ Campaign. They…

Evidence: Claims that phylogenetic analysis can prove direction of transmission are unfounded, say experts

26 November 2010

I’m reproducing this news article I wrote for aidsmap.com in case anyone hasn’t seen it, because it is a really important issue. Claiming that phylogenetic analysis is so reliable as to be able to ‘prove’ who infected who in a…

Sweden: Health agency criticised for not co-operating with police

22 October 2008

The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control has revealed in an article in a medical journal that they have refused to co-operate with police in tracking down individuals who may have broken Sweden’s draconian public health and criminal HIV exposure…

Canada: Justice Committee report recommends wide-ranging reforms to HIV criminalisation, including removing HIV non-disclosure from sexual assault law

18 June 2019

Yesterday, the House of Commons Standing Committee of Justice and Human Rights released a ground-breaking report “The Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure in Canada” recommending that the Government of Canada works with each of the Canadian provinces and territories to end the use of sexual assault…