Alliance Linking Organisations in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with their strategic partners REDLACTRANS and RedTraSex, have used the occasion of World AIDS Day 2012 to sound a warning about the impact of criminal law being applied to those who transmit or expose others to HIV infection. In the last year alone, the governments of the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Ecuador issued new laws or reformed existing ones that criminalise HIV transmission.
Alert over new HIV criminalisation laws in Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Nicaragua
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US: New report from the Williams Institute examines the enforcement of Indiana’s HIV-related criminal donation laws
Enforcement of HIV Criminalization in Indiana: Donation Laws
July 23, 2024
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US: Sex workers convicted of aggravated prostitution because of their HIV status to be removed from Sex Offender Registry
Tennessee agrees to remove sex workers with HIV from sex offender registry
July 18, 2024
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Malaysia: Latest attempt to amend the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act retains many of its controversial provisions
Act 342 Amendment Bill Treats Infection Like A Criminal Offence
July 16, 2024
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US: New HIV criminalisation law goes into effect in Tennessee
CHLP denounces new law in Tennessee that further criminalizes people living with HIV
July 3, 2024
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US: CHLP and Oklahoma advocates successfully oppose sweeping STI criminalisation Bill
STI Criminalization Bill stopped in Oklahoma
June 28, 2024
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July 16, 2024
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