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Translated via Deepl.com – For article in Russian, please scroll down Knowingly infecting another person with the immunodeficiency virus is a crime, but most criminal cases break up before trial. Last year, 3,900 Kazakhstani people got the bad news of…

Translated with www.DeepL.com, please scroll down for English version Currently, the Penal Code of the State of Querétaro imposes penalties on anyone who “knowing that he or she suffers from a serious illness in an infectious period (…) puts the…

Translated with Deepl.com. Please scroll down for article in Spanish The Congress of Nayarit approved reforms to the State Penal Code so that people with HIV and diseases transmitted by intimate contact are not discriminated against and enjoy their right…

The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) along with UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially launched a new set of expert jurist legal principles to guide the application of international human rights law to…

Five Minnesota House Democrats are proposing eliminating the law that makes it a crime to knowingly expose someone to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. The lawmakers’ bill (HF267) would repeal a 1995 law that allows prosecutors to charge someone…

HF 267, a bill that would repeal Minnesota’s criminal penalties for “transmission of a communicable disease from one person who knowingly harbors the agent to another”, has been introduced on January 11 and will be sent to the House’s Public…

The Parliament of Ukraine has adopted the Bill “On amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On combating the spread of diseases caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and on legal and social protection of people living with HIV”, which…

Opinion: “Folks living with HIV/AIDS are valuable contributors to their families, communities, and warrant equal treatment under the law,” Fargo resident Kara Gloe writes. House Bill 1281 is an opportunity to right a wrong. The current law is discriminatory and codifies…

People with HIV would no longer be subject to harsher criminal penalties under legislation that advanced out of a House committee Wednesday. If you put your bodily fluid or waste on someone – like, say, spitting on them – it’s…

The Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (“KELIN”) is disappointed with the Nairobi High Court’s decision dismissing Petition 447 of 2018. The Petition was filed in December 2018. It asked that the Court declare section 26…

Getting diagnosed with HIV was a death sentence in 1988, when Carrie Foote was 18 years old. Thirty-five years later, the sociology professor at IUPUI has only the normal quirks of aging to worry about. Her chronic disease, with advancements in medicine,…

Nairobi, 20th December 2022. The High Court has dealt a blow to the fight against the HIV response, by dismissing a petition that challenged the criminalisation of all forms of deliberate transmission of HIV. Hon. Lady Justice Hedwig Ong’udi dismissed the…

Translated via Deepl.com. For original article in Russian, please scroll down. The Krasnodar Territory Department of the Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service decided that Uzbek citizen X. was undesirable in Russia because of her HIV…

Translated via Deepl.com. Please scroll down for original article in Spanish. The LGBTQ+ community is calling for the repeal of the criminalisation of HIV transmission in the Quintana Roo Health Law. The LGBTQ+ community, in a working meeting with local…

Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf has signed bill HB 103. HB 103 creates two new, unnecessary, and broadly applicable felony offenses and subjects people with a communicable disease, such as HIV, to harsher penalties under law. As passed, HB 103 would create two new felonies: A…

PACHA UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES RESOLUTION TO CREATE SAFEGUARDS FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV Directs CDC to Adapt Surveillance Activities to Better Protect Human Rights for Vulnerable Communities October 18, 2022–PWN commends and applauds the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) for…

The federal government has opened its promised public consultation to help develop a policy roadmap for reforming the criminal law on HIV non-disclosure. After reading the newly posted consultation paper on HIV non-disclosure, lawyers and other members of the public are invited…

Health rights activists and lawyers have warned of evasion of privacy and confidentiality for arrested suspects once they are subjected to mandatory testing for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. On Tuesday, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)…

Translated via DEEPL.com – For the original article in French, please scroll down. The bill was passed by acclamation by parliamentarians at the plenary session of 6 October 2022. The Central African Republic is one of the countries most affected…

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Members of a bipartisan legislative panel on Tuesday said Indiana’s HIV laws are unnecessarily discriminatory and don’t accomplish anything. The general assembly convenes interim study committees every year to look into policy matters between legislative sessions. A…

A new data interactive looks at the impact of HIV criminal laws on people living with HIV in nine states, including Louisiana Since 2011, as many as 176 people have had contact with Louisiana’s criminal legal system because of allegations…

Translated via Deepl.com. For article in Russian, please scroll down. A draft law on compulsory HIV testing of sex workers, men who have sex with men and drug users is under discussion in Uzbekistan. They would reportedly be detected during…

Doctors and other advocates said multiple provisions in Indiana code regarding HIV are outdated and discriminatory. Lawmakers and other stakeholders on Tuesday discussed possible changes to Indiana laws concerning HIV-specific criminal penalties and sentence enhancements. The Republican-led summer study committee also weighed…

Jennifer Murphy was convicted for not disclosing her HIV status to a sexual partner, despite being unable to transmit the virus. When Jennifer Murphy was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, her face was splashed all over the news —…