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US: New study to explore effects of HIV criminalisation on health department policies and programmes

3 March 2013
USA Social science Research Public health
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Source: Windycitymediagroup

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a one year, $50,000 grant to study the tensions the criminalization of HIV exposure creates in public health, and the resulting impact on clients. Carol Galletly, J.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at CAIR, is the primary investigator. Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H., director of the division of public health law and bioethics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, is co-principal investigator.

The goals of the study are to identify where and how the criminalization of HIV exposure has influenced health department policies and programs, and to examine how staff members in public health departments resolve the tensions between criminal law, public health authority, and patient-centered care when considering the prospect of an HIV-positive client knowingly exposing others to HIV. “Criminal law and public health law have markedly different philosophies and approaches to HIV prevention. Those often mutually exclusive approaches result in people not being tested, and individuals who are HIV-positive unknowingly transmitting the virus. This study will examine some of the basic questions about the impact of the law on public health,” said Dr. Galletly.

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