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Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator, please scroll down for original article in Russian. Human rights activists, the WHO and the UN all oppose this provision in the Russian Criminal Code. No chance of acquittal In one of the most controversial articles of…

The Constitutional Court condemned a well-known restaurant chain in the country for having discriminated against a citizen who applied for a job within said chain.  It stopped the hiring process when it found out that the man was HIV positive….

Translated via Deepl.com. For original article in Spanish, please scroll down. The new proposal was presented on October 26, 2020. It is the third time it reaches Congress, and different organizations demand that it be debated. The current HIV regulation…

Translation via Deepl.com. For original article in Spanish, please scroll down. To protect his fundamental rights to social security, the Sixth Chamber of the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of an active soldier diagnosed with HIV. In 2015, an active…

Automatic translation via Deepl. For original article in Russian, please scroll down. We asked a psychologist, gynecologist, infectious disease specialist and a medical lawyer what they think about Articles 121 and 122 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation….

Translation via Deepl.com. For original article in Spanish, please scroll down. A new law is being evaluated to update the existing legislation to the scientific advances registered for sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and viral hepatitis. For this purpose, the Senate…

Stigma, denial of health services, dismissal, deportation – these are just some of the problems HIV-positive people in Russia can face. For 25 years Positive Dialogue NGO helps people with these problems. A quiet street in the centre of St….

The Constitutional Court of Uganda has begun hearing a landmark case on the right to health, in which LGBT and human rights defenders sued the state for criminalisation of HIV transmission and mandatory disclosure of one’s serostatus. By Kikonyogo Kivumbi…

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law Tuesday that repeals criminal penalties for people who transmit HIV to others. House Bill 1063, sponsored by Rep. Carol Ammons, an Urbana Democrat, and Sen. Robert Peters, a Chicago Democrat,…

Automated Google translation – For original article in Russian, please scroll down Russia still has a law prohibiting HIV-infected migrants from staying in the country. This norm does not just legalise discrimination – it puts people in mortal danger who…

Findings show that Black people and women are disproportionately affected by the state’s HIV criminal laws. LOS ANGELES – New analysis from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that as many as 154 people have been incarcerated…

Russian legislation has a section on HIV infection. It criminalises not only the actual infection but also exposure to another person. Exposure to infection is, for example, when a person with HIV has not informed their partner of their status…

For the first time since enacting HIV laws in the 1980s, Missouri will update its laws that make it a crime to expose a person to the virus. Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed a bill that reduces the charges…

Automatic google translation – For original article in Russian, please scroll down On July 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law on state fingerprint registration of visa-free foreign citizens in Russia. According to the law, visa-free foreigners will now have…

Automated translation – For article in Russian, please scroll down. Russia is one of 19 countries that deport migrants living with HIV. Migrants, in turn, prefer not to return to their homeland and remain in the country illegally. For fear of being…

Translated from French with Deepl.com – For original article, please scroll down The French National Assembly has passed an amendment allowing gay & bisexual men to donate blood under the same conditions as heterosexual men. The measure is due to…

Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon ordered her team on Friday to review all prosecutions brought by the county under Michigan’s former felony law AIDS — Sexual Penetration with Uninformed Partner. The review found only two prosecutions. One case was dropped,…

HENDERSON, NV – Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak today signed into law landmark legislation to reform outdated Nevada laws that criminalized and stigmatized people living with HIV. Senate Bill (SB) 275 was introduced by Senator Dallas Harris, received bipartisan support in the Senate, and…

Translated with www.DeepL.com. For article in Spanish, please scroll down. The arrest in Mexico City of a man for allegedly hiding the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from his girlfriend sparked controversy on social networks and harsh criticism of the Mexico…

LGBTQ groups share mixed feelings on bills that passed, failed during the session It’s easy to measure Nevada’s success in passing legislation that enhances LGBTQ protections when compared to the wave of anti-LGBTQ bills, specifically anti-trans proposals, that have been…

Jeremy Merithew had a hook-up in 2012 that he will remember for the rest of his life. He met a man on the gay app Adam4Adam. The man came over for sex and left. The next day, a deputy from…

The Health Not Prisons Dispatch is a monthly bulletin highlighting recent developments relevant to criminalisation and policing of people living with HIV in the United States, along with upcoming events, relevant resources, and opportunities to get involved. The June edition…

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The Interior Ministry proposes to rewrite Article 130 in the Criminal Code, which deals with deliberate exposure to a dangerous communicable disease. Now it mainly refers to HIV, but also mentions “other incurable infectious diseases. The new interpretation removes HIV…

(TRENTON) – Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle has introduced legislation to decriminalize the transmission of HIV under certain circumstances. Under current New Jersey law, it is a crime of the third degree if a person knows that he or she is…