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HIV criminalisation cases

The latest cases curated for the HIV Justice Network from global news reports.

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Russia: Woman sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for alleged HIV transmission and exposure

Latest update 21 June 2025
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Women

Uzbekistan: Woman sentenced to 3 years of liberty restrictions for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 23 May 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual transmission Women

India: 23-year-old woman files complaint against her husband for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 6 May 2025
India Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Uzbekistan: 27-year-old woman arrested for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 30 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: 5 Years suspended sentence for woman arrested during sting operation

Latest update 28 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Uzbekistan: Woman receives five-year term for second offence of alleged HIV nondisclosure

Latest update 17 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: Woman sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 14 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual transmission Women

Uzbekistan : Woman sentenced to 3 years restriction of liberty for alleged HIV-exposure

Latest update 9 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: Woman sentenced to 5 years in jail for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 2 April 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Uzbekistan: Woman on ARV treatment sentenced to 3 years “restriction of freedom” for alleged HIV Exposure

Latest update 18 March 2025
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: Woman sentenced to 3 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 29 January 2025
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: 27-year-old woman to appear in court for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 28 January 2025
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: 20-year-old woman receives 3 years non-custodial sentence for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 27 December 2024
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women Youth

US: Woman arrested and charged with felony in Oregon for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 22 December 2024
Oregon United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: Woman sentenced to 4 years of house arrest and other restrictions for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 27 November 2024
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uruguay: 26 year old woman, “presumed” to be HIV-positive, sentenced to 4 months for spitting at police officer

Latest update 21 October 2024
Uruguay Spitting Women

Russia: Woman receives 1 year and 6 months suspended sentence for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 19 September 2024
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Belarus: 34 year-old woman charged with HIV exposure in Soligorsk

Latest update 18 July 2024
Belarus Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: Criminal case opens in Cherepovets against woman accused of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 28 June 2024
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]Spain: High Court upholds acquittal of woman prosecuted in Tenerife for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 22 June 2024
Spain Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Woman in Arkansas charged with “willfully exposing another to HIV” for spitting at police officer

Latest update 21 June 2024
Arkansas United States Spitting Women

Belarus: Woman who did not engaged in HIV care, sentenced to 5 years in case of vertical transmission

Latest update 17 June 2024
Belarus Vertical transmission Women

Russia: Woman in Krasnoturyinsk sentenced to one year in jail for biting a police officer

Latest update 10 May 2024
Russian Federation Biting Women

Ireland: Woman granted protection order against her husband under Domestic Violence Act for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 26 February 2024
Ireland Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Russia: Woman reported to the police for alleged HIV non-disclosure and transmission

Latest update 5 February 2024
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

China: Woman sex worker prosecuted and fined due to her HIV status

Latest update 30 January 2024
China Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Russia: 41-year-old woman faces up to one year in prison for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 19 October 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: Prosecution prioritises alleged HIV exposure, overlooks violent assault on woman

Latest update 18 October 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Russia: Woman sentenced to 3 years suspended sentence for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 26 July 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Bolivia: Criminal complaint to be filed against pregnant woman for refusing treatment

Latest update 15 June 2023
Bolivia Vertical transmission Women

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

Latest update 19 May 2023
Tajikistan Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]Zimbabwe: High Court stops criminal proceedings against woman charged with alleged HIV transmission under repealed HIV criminalisation law

Latest update 11 April 2023
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: 24-year-old woman charged in Naryan-Mar with alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 10 April 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women Youth

Uzbekistan: 23-year-old woman faces up to 8 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 10 April 2023
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Women

Tajikistan: 46-year-old woman sex worker charged with allegedly transmitting HIV to several clients

Latest update 10 April 2023
Tajikistan Alleged sexual transmission Sex workers Women

Russia: 26 year-old woman faces up to a year in prison for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 10 April 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 26-year-old woman charged with “knowingly exposing someone to HIV”

Latest update 21 March 2023
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Police officer sentenced to 3 years for having sex with a woman in his custody and allegedly exposing her to HIV

Latest update 22 February 2023
Maryland Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Thailand: Woman seeks legal action against her husband for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 15 February 2023
Thailand Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Woman charged with “reckless conduct of an HIV-infected person” for spitting on the arm of a police officer

Latest update 22 December 2022
Georgia Spitting Women

Russia: Woman resident of Naryan-Mar charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 8 December 2022
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

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

Latest update 28 November 2022
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

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

Latest update 21 November 2022
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Woman under investigation for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 21 November 2022
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Woman arrested in Florida for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 21 October 2022
Florida United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Florida woman charged with five counts of criminal transmission of HIV for spitting on paramedics

Latest update 13 September 2022
Florida United States Spitting Women

[Update] Canada: Woman sentenced for HIV ‘exposure’, despite undetectable viral load, wins her case in Court of Appeal

Latest update 31 August 2022

       

Ontario Canada Risk Expert witnesses Media/Public Opinion Alleged sexual exposure Women

Niger: Charges against woman sex worker arrested for HIV exposure are dropped following advocates intervention

Latest update 10 August 2022
Niger Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

France: Woman to pay compensation for moral damage related to “fear of exposure” after spitting at police officer

Latest update 19 May 2022
France Spitting Women

Spain: Woman accused of transmitting HIV to her partner acquitted as he was found to have been aware of her status

Latest update 12 May 2022
Spain Alleged sexual transmission Women

India: Woman reports her husband to the police in Karnataka for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 15 January 2022
India Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Russia: Criminal case dropped against woman accused of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 29 December 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Uzbekistan: 27-year-old woman sentenced to 6.5 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 29 December 2021
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]France: 41-year-old woman sentenced in Brittany to 30 months, 24 suspended, for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 21 December 2021
France Alleged sexual transmission Women

Zimbabwe: 32-year-old woman arrested in Bulawayo for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 26 November 2021
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

India: Woman lodges complaint against her husband in Uttar Pradesh for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 November 2021
India Alleged sexual transmission

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

Latest update 7 October 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Woman charged in Yaroslavl Region for allegedly not disclosing her status

Latest update 16 September 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Iceland: Woman starts lawsuit against man accused of alleged HIV exposure as criminal case stalls

Latest update 16 September 2021
Iceland Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Civil cases (non criminal)

Russia: Woman charged with alleged HIV transmission in Nyagan

Latest update 8 September 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

UK: Suffolk woman given suspended sentence for trying to bite a police officer

Latest update 23 July 2021
England United Kingdom Biting Women

US: Woman charged with felony in Wisconsin for allegedly attempting to flick blood and spitting at police officer

Latest update 20 May 2021
Wisconsin United States Spitting Women Other

Russia: Criminal proceedings started against 36-year-old woman for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 17 May 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Belarus: 28-year-old woman under investigation in Minsk for allegedly infecting another person with HIV

Latest update 29 April 2021
Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: 21-year-old woman faces up to 5 years in jail for alleged HIV infection through shared needle

Latest update 23 April 2021
Russian Federation Needle/syringe Women Youth

[Update]Zimbabwe: 32-year-old woman accused of alleged HIV exposure released on bail pending trial

Latest update 14 April 2021
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Suspended sentence for woman accused of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 8 April 2021
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]US: Woman sex worker, previously sentenced to jail, faces new felony charges in Ohio for soliciting

Latest update 9 March 2021
Ohio United States Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Kazakhstan: 37-year-old woman region charged with alleged HIV transmission in Akmola region

Latest update 11 February 2021
Kazakhstan Alleged sexual transmission Women

Belarus: Woman sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for alleged HIV transmission and exposure

Latest update 18 January 2021
Belarus Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Women

UK: Woman with low viral load sentenced to 14 months in prison for biting police officer

Latest update 21 October 2020
England United Kingdom Biting Women

Russia: Woman sentenced to 10 months for alleged HIV non-disclosure and exposure

Latest update 17 October 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Uzbekistan: Court passes lighter sentence of two years house arrest for woman accused of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 13 October 2020
Uzbekistan Alleged sexual transmission Women

UK: 25 months for woman living with HIV who bit police officer

Latest update 10 October 2020
England United Kingdom Biting Women Youth

UK: Magistrate fines woman for throwing bloodstained clothes, stating she was “using them as a weapon containing HIV”

Latest update 2 October 2020
Wales United Kingdom Other

US: Woman arrested in Georgia for allegedly having a sexual relationship without disclosing her status

Latest update 5 August 2020
Georgia United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Woman living with HIV charged with felony assault for spitting at police officer in Georgia

Latest update 3 August 2020
Georgia United States Spitting Women

Russia: 37-year-old woman charged with alleged HIV non-disclosure in Kaluga

Latest update 3 August 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Russia: Police drops criminal case against an HIV-positive woman in St. Petersburg who was breastfeeding her newborn

Latest update 19 June 2020
Russian Federation Breastfeeding Women

Russia: 40-year-old woman charged with alleged HIV exposure in Kaluga region

Latest update 4 June 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: 43-year-old woman charged with alleged HIV exposure in Missouri

Latest update 25 May 2020
Missouri United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 29-year-old Perm Krai woman sentenced to two years and 25 days in prison for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 21 May 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

UK: Woman with HIV/Hep C and mental health issues sentenced to 6 months for throwing sanitary pad at police

Latest update 12 May 2020
England United Kingdom Women Other

Russia: Woman accused of alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure in Rostov region

Latest update 16 April 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

UK: Woman accused of HIV exposure in Scotland for allegedly spitting blood at someone

Latest update 20 March 2020
Scotland United Kingdom Spitting Women

Russia: Woman charged with alleged HIV exposure and transmission in Naryan-Mar

Latest update 1 February 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Criminal case opens in Nizhny Novgorod region against woman for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 29 January 2020
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: 35 year-old woman arrested in Tennessee for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 9 January 2020
Tennessee United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 23 year-old Kazakh woman, who has lived in Russia since she was 3, expelled because she was diagnosed with HIV

Latest update 6 January 2020
Russian Federation

[Update] US: North Dakota woman receives 10 years sentence, with 8 years and 6 months suspended, for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 18 December 2019
North Dakota United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

Kenya: Woman charged in 2018 with deliberate transmission for breastfeeding baby to appeal court order to be tested

Latest update 24 November 2019
Kenya Breastfeeding Women

India: Woman lodges police complaint against medical staff of blood bank after contracting HIV during transfusion

Latest update 23 November 2019
India Medical/dental

Uganda: 23 young woman in court for allegedly breastfeeding a child

Latest update 19 November 2019
Uganda Breastfeeding Women Youth

India: Woman seeks legal recourse against partner for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 15 October 2019
India Alleged sexual transmission

[Update]Russia: Woman from Ezhva sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for allegedly transmitting HIV to her partner

Latest update 15 October 2019
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Charges of alleged HIV non-disclosure dismissed for the second time in Michigan against ‘undetectable’ transgender woman

Latest update 3 October 2019
Michigan United States Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Trans* people

US: Woman reports her boyfriend to police in Arkansas for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 October 2019
Arkansas United States Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Criminal case initiated against woman living with HIV who gave blood

Latest update 29 August 2019
Russian Federation Blood donation Women

[Update]US: Georgia woman who made claims of intentional HIV transmission on video, charged with a misdemeanor for harassing communications

Latest update 6 August 2019
Georgia United States Alleged sexual exposure Women

[update]Belarus: 34-year-old woman sentenced to 10.5 years for alleged HIV transmission appeals court verdict

Latest update 2 August 2019
Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women