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Laos: Legislators consider HIV-specific law allowing “prosecution of wrongdoers”

25 June 2010

A brief report from the German News Agency, dpa, suggests that leglislators in Laos are considering a new HIV-specific law that will include criminal exposure or transmission provisions. The law would also introduce the “prosecution of wrongdoers,” the report said….

Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic) Punitive laws and policies

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Laos: Legislators consider HIV-specific law allowing “prosecution of wrongdoers”

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