Having a common regional approach to the HIV and Aids pandemic is an important step for the East African Community, as the five member states get ready for closer integration. The increased trade and labour migration that comes with closer economic ties will invariably create situations where large numbers of foreign nationals travel or relocate freely in their territories.
As Kenya and Uganda assent to East African Community's Regional AIDS Law, the lack of an HIV criminalisation statute apparently holds back Tanzania and Burundi
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Act 342 Amendment Bill Treats Infection Like A Criminal Offence
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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
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US: CHLP and Oklahoma advocates successfully oppose sweeping STI criminalisation Bill
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