The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has updated two resources that could be helpful to HIV anti-discrimination advocates and attorneys representing PLWH. Together with the HIV Medicine Association (HIV MA), CHLP updated the Sample Expert Statement on HIV Transmission Risk describing in more detail the ways in which HIV is and isn’t transmitted.
US: Updated advocacy tools – sample expert statement on transmission risk and US criminalisation map
News curated from other sources
Russia: Medical documents showing negative HIV status and no drug addiction required for stays over 90 days
Migrants may be required to provide the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a certificate of the absence of HIV infection
November 22, 2021
Mexico: Two deputies present a bill in Mexico City to reform the law around HIV exposure and transmission
“They go against penalties for HIV transmission “
November 18, 2021
Kyrgyzstan: CEDAW recommends the decriminalisation of HIV transmission through consensual sex
Concluding observations from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the fifth periodic report of Kyrgyzstan
November 16, 2021
Austria: Austria's AIDS Support organisations call for the destigmatisation of HIV positive people in criminal law
HIV-positive people are discriminated against in court
November 4, 2021
Brazil: Instead of criminalising people living with HIV, strengthening health services would promote prevention and care
Living with HIV is not a crime. People living with the AIDS virus should have peace of mind like everyone else.
October 20, 2021
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