HIV criminalisation cases

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

Showing 32 of 32 cases

US: Raleigh patient faces assault charges after alleged blood exposure at hospital

Latest update 9 October 2025

North Carolina Youth Other

UK: Woman remanded in custody in Scotland after throwing blood at police and stating she was HIV positive and had Hep C

Latest update 22 July 2025

Scotland United Kingdom Women Other

US: Man faces felonious assault charge in Ohio for throwing blood onto a nurse

Latest update 12 July 2024

Ohio United States Other

Estonia: Prisoner living with HIV sentenced to additional 2 years for violent threats including throwing urine at prison guard

Latest update 19 January 2023

Estonia Other

Uzbekistan: Dentist who carried on working after his HIV diagnosis faces up to 5 years in prison

Latest update 26 April 2022

Uzbekistan Other

Estonia: Supreme Court enforces 8 years sentence for mother who lost her HIV-positive child after rejecting conventional treatment

Latest update 18 March 2022

Estonia Women Other

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

[Update]Singapore: Charges withdrawn for 37-year-old man indicted for donating blood and unknowingly lying about his sexual history

Latest update 12 March 2021

Singapore Blood donation Other

Uzbekistan: Female hairdresser on ART prosecuted for not disclosing HIV-positive status

Latest update 30 October 2020

Update: Audio testimony First person testimony given to UNDP 3rd EECA Judges Forum, 11 November 2021 (Voice of interpreter) She was given a two year suspended sentence and is no longer allowed to work as a hairdresser. HIVJusticeNet · Uzbekistan…

Uzbekistan Women Other

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

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

India: 8 members of a family charged for allegedly conducting the marriage of a man by concealing his HIV status

Latest update 22 July 2019

India Other

Russia: 31-year-old man living with HIV in Kamchatka arrested for threatening to infect a police officer

Latest update 13 July 2019

Russian Federation Heterosexual men Other

[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

Canada: Man living with HIV charged with failure to comply with court order to seek treatment

Latest update 7 June 2019

British Columbia Canada Other

Romania: Man sentenced to 1 year for “attempting the crime of HIV transmission” by rubbing tip of a pencil on police officer

Latest update 5 October 2018

Romania Other

Canada: Man charged under British Columbia’s Public Health Act for allegedly refusing to comply with orders for HIV treatment

Latest update 25 August 2018

British Columbia Canada Other

US: Iowa man sues former lawyer for not exercising the appropriate level of care and expertise in 2009 landmark HIV criminalisation case

Latest update 19 January 2018

Iowa United States Alleged sexual exposure Gay men Other

Indonesia: Eight gay men arrested and subjected to mandatory HIV testing after police raided party

Latest update 6 May 2017

Indonesia Gay men Other

Kenya: Five women living with HIV who were forced or coerced into being sterilised will finally have their case heard in a Nairobi courtroom next month

Latest update 6 April 2017

Kenya Women Other

US: Venezuelan man living with HIV in Oregon is kept in detention center and faces deportation for "minor offense"

Latest update 28 November 2016

Oregon United States Migrants Other

Kenya: Pre-marital HIV tests requested by some Kenyan churches despite law banning them as a precondition for marriage

Latest update 10 October 2016

Kenya Other

Singapore: Former lecturer charged for lying about his HIV status when applying for work

Latest update 18 July 2016

Singapore Other

Egypt: Moral panic in Giza police jail when gay man arrested under ‘moral debauchery’ law is discovered to be living with HIV

Latest update 9 March 2016

Egypt Risk Discrimination Police Media/Public Opinion Gay men Other

Kenya: Court jails person with TB for not taking treatment and infecting wife and children; Kenya Ethical and Legal Issues Network on HIV and AIDS protests

Latest update 21 July 2015

Kenya Punitive laws and policies Campaigns Human rights Other

France: Man sentenced to five years for infecting current, former partners and baby

Latest update 16 November 2009

France Alleged sexual transmission Vertical transmission Heterosexual men Other

Trinidad & Tobago: Man sentenced to 30 days’ hard labour for threatening to throw blood in police officer’s face

Latest update 4 November 2009

Trinidad and Tobago Other

[Update]US: Colorado man gets 15 years in first-ever father-to-child transmission case

Latest update 22 July 2009

Colorado United States Alleged sexual transmission Vertical transmission Heterosexual men Other

UK: Man jailed for two years for sexual hepatitis B transmission – world first?

Latest update 21 November 2008

In what appears to the first ever criminal case of sexual hepatitis B virus transmission, a man in Gloucester has been sentenced to two years in prison under Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 – the…

England United Kingdom Other