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HIV criminalisation cases

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

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[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

UK: 37-year-old woman sentenced to 16 months for robbery and stating she had HIV while brandishing a needle

Latest update 9 June 2020
Scotland United Kingdom Needle/syringe Other

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

Australia: Sydney man arrested and charged with allegedly infecting a woman with HIV

Latest update 31 October 2019
New South Wales Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

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

Latest update 15 October 2019
India Alleged sexual exposure

[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 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 Medical/dental 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

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 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

Federal Republic of Somalia: Woman living with HIV arrested for alleged HIV transmission to police officer

Latest update 19 January 2017
Somalia Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Women

Malawi: High Court of Malawi squashes conviction and sentence of woman convicted for breastfeeding and orders her immediate release

Latest update 17 January 2017
Malawi Breastfeeding

Russia: Woman, 28, to be prosecuted for alleged HIV transmission following non-disclosure to ex male partner

Latest update 13 December 2016
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Ohio woman living with HIV arrested on sex-work related charges

Latest update 20 November 2016
Ohio USA Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Zimbabwe: Woman living with HIV arrested for alleged HIV-non disclosure

Latest update 12 November 2016
Zimbabwe Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Women

Kenya: Woman living with HIV ordered by court to pay compensation to ex-partner for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 4 November 2016
Kenya Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update] Scotland: Dundee woman sentenced to 16 months in jail for "culpably and recklessly" pricking a youngster with needle

Latest update 3 November 2016
Scotland United Kingdom Needle/syringe Women

Canada: Ontario woman living with HIV given suspended sentence with 18 months probation for spitting

Latest update 29 October 2016
Ontario Canada Spitting Women

US: Tennessee woman charged with alleged HIV exposure and aggravated assault

Latest update 22 October 2016
Tennessee USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Florida woman living with HIV sentenced to a year in prison for soliciting

Latest update 30 September 2016
Florida USA Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers

Northern Ireland: HIV positive woman sentenced to 5 months in custody for biting police officer

Latest update 1 September 2016
Northern Ireland United Kingdom Biting Women

Russia: 28-year-old woman from Chelyabinsk region found guilty in alleged HIV transmission and sentenced to suspended 1-year and 6-month sentence with same probation period

Latest update 12 August 2016
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: woman from Bryansk receives suspended 3-year sentence plus 3-year probation for alleged HIV transmission to her partner

Latest update 19 July 2016
Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Former prisoner from Perm region, who potentially exposed a woman to HIV without disclosure, facing up to a year in prison

Latest update 16 June 2016
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Zambia: Woman sues for divorce and asks court for compensation for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 9 May 2016
Zambia Alleged sexual transmission Women Civil cases (non criminal)