Cases

HIV criminalisation cases

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

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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 USA 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

[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 USA 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

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 USA 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 USA 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 USA 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 USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

[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 USA 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

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 USA 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 USA 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 USA 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

UK: Woman sues her husband for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 23 July 2019
England United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Women Civil cases (non criminal)

[Update]Uganda: High Court overturns ruling which sentenced a woman to two years in jail for allegedly injecting a baby with HIV

Latest update 9 July 2019
Uganda Women Other

Russia: Sochi resident reports woman to the police for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 5 July 2019
Russian Federation

Tajikistan: 28-year-old woman sex worker arrested for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 30 May 2019
Tajikistan Alleged sexual transmission Sex workers Women

US: Woman charged with “intentional exposure” to HIV in Louisiana for spitting at medical staff

Latest update 10 May 2019
Louisiana USA Spitting Women

US: Woman charged with assault in Virginia for biting police officer

Latest update 10 April 2019
Virginia USA Biting Women

US: Woman charged in Florida for allegedly not disclosing her status to her partner

Latest update 28 March 2019
Florida USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Kenya: Woman living with HIV arrested for breastfeeding baby in her care

Latest update 27 March 2019
Kenya Breastfeeding Women

Russia: 39-year-old woman sentenced to one year imprisonment for alleged HIV exposure and non-disclosure

Latest update 13 March 2019
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Russia: Woman living with HIV sentenced to three years probation in South West Siberia for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 5 March 2019
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Belarus: 22-year-old woman under investigation in Minsk for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 13 February 2019
Belarus Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Tennessee woman living with HIV charged with “unprotected intimate contact”

Latest update 27 December 2018
Tennessee USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 36-year-old woman charged with alleged HIV transmission in Novokuznetsk

Latest update 15 November 2018
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Woman living with HIV in Ulyanovsk faces up to one year imprisonment for not disclosing her status

Latest update 8 November 2018

   

Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Mississippi woman arrested and remanded into custody for allegedly not disclosing her status

Latest update 13 October 2018
Mississippi USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Kenya: 29-year old woman arrested and charged with alleged intentional transmission for breastfeeding a baby

Latest update 26 September 2018
Kenya Breastfeeding Women

Tajikistan: Second woman in a year to be charged for providing sexual services despite a positive HIV test

Latest update 21 September 2018
Tajikistan Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Russia: Woman sentenced to prison in Komi for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 10 July 2018
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 23-year-old woman sentenced to 2 years in prison for alleged HIV exposure n Penza

Latest update 6 July 2018
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Turkey: Istanbul court acquits woman in case of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 12 June 2018

     

Turkey Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]US: Ohio woman facing second conviction for alleged HIV non-disclosure sentenced to another five years in prison

Latest update 31 May 2018
Ohio USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Belarus: Woman under criminal investigation for vertical transmission

Latest update 23 May 2018
Belarus Vertical transmission Women

Belarus: Woman tried and sentenced for HIV transmission despite her husband being aware of her HIV status

Latest update 26 April 2018
Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Trans woman arrested for alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure

Latest update 17 April 2018
Florida USA Alleged sexual transmission Trans* people

Zimbabwe: 25-year-old woman arrested for allegedly transmitting HIV to her husband

Latest update 17 April 2018
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: 36-year-old woman arrested in Uvat region for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 31 March 2018
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

Zimbabwe: 28-year-old woman arrested and charged for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 21 March 2018

       

Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Woman arrested in Tennessee for criminal exposure to HIV for spitting at police officer

Latest update 1 March 2018

     

Tennessee USA Spitting Women

Suriname: 38-year-old woman to be charged with grievous bodily harm for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 21 February 2018

     

Suriname Alleged sexual exposure Women

Belarus: Woman charged for not disclosing her HIV status before having sex

Latest update 24 January 2018
Belarus Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: 2 years suspended sentence for 33-year-old Tyumen woman accused of alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 26 December 2017
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Man and woman sentenced to 2.5 years each for allegedly transmitting HIV to their new partners

Latest update 3 December 2017
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Fundraising appeal to appoint new lawyer for 18-year-old woman prosecuted for alleged HIV exposure in the Volga region

Latest update 28 November 2017
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Woman living with HIV arrested in Oklahoma for sex work and "intending to transfer HIV"

Latest update 22 November 2017
Oklahoma USA Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers

[Update]US: Woman from Tennessee charged with criminal exposure to HIV for biting police officer

Latest update 14 November 2017
Tennessee USA Biting Women

US: Montana woman living with HIV charged with criminal endangerment for allegedly biting a security guard

Latest update 6 September 2017
Montana USA Biting Women

US: Pennsylvania woman who told ambulance workers she had HIV faces charge of aggravated assault for biting and spitting

Latest update 19 August 2017
Pennsylvania USA Biting Spitting

Zimbabwe: Woman living with HIV on trial for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 15 August 2017
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]Canada: Woman convicted and sentenced to jail in 2016 for alleged HIV non-disclosure appeals to Supreme Court

Latest update 30 July 2017
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Man living with HIV in Ohio arrested for having sex with a woman

Latest update 28 June 2017

   

Ohio USA Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]US: Michigan court sentences woman living with HIV to 14 months in prison for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 8 June 2017
Michigan USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Belarus: Woman living with HIV in court for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 22 May 2017

   

Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

India: Woman takes her husband to court to seek compensation for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 12 May 2017
India Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Tennessee woman who attempted suicide charged with aggravated assault for spitting on first responder

Latest update 7 May 2017
Tennessee USA Spitting Women

Czech Republic: 24 year-old woman living with HIV sentenced to 5 years in prison for alleged HIV-exposure

Latest update 7 April 2017

         

Czech Republic/Czechia Alleged sexual exposure Women

Belarus: Baranovichi woman accused of alleged HIV transmission sentenced to two years in colony pending appeal

Latest update 17 February 2017
Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Woman living with HIV in Iowa charged with "possibly" transmitting HIV to another woman during a fight

Latest update 10 February 2017
Iowa USA Alleged sexual exposure Biting Women

Russia: 28-year old woman sentenced to three years in prison in the Republic of Komi for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 4 February 2017
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

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

Latest update 26 January 2017
Florida USA Alleged sexual exposure Women