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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 —…

Across the globe, one hundred and thirty-four countries are criminalized or prosecuted due to criminal laws against HIV transmission, non-disclosure and exposure. Lower rates of HIV treatment and viral suppression are present and more likely in those countries that criminalize…

Automated translation via Deepl.com – For article in Spanish please scroll down. In Mexico, with the exception of Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosí, 30 states retain the crime of “danger of contagion” in their local penal codes, a remnant from…

Automated translation via Deepl.com – For article in Spanish, please scroll down. The Mexican Network against the Criminalisation of HIV and the civil association Vida Positiva Playa filed in recent days a request to the Human Rights Commission of the…

The Supreme Court ruling is one of the strictest in a recent spate of measures addressing deceptive condom use, as courts try to define consent. TORONTO — It is a crime to renege on a promise to wear a condom…

Automated Google translation – Scroll down for original article in Spanish The bill was approved with 60 votes in favor and only 1 against. It also includes Viral Hepatitis, other Sexually Transmitted Infections and Tuberculosis. It repeals Law 23,798 that had…

Nearly one-half of HIV registrants on the SOR were women and over three-quarters of HIV registrants were Black. LOS ANGELES – At least 154 people have been placed on Tennessee’s sex offender registry (SOR) for an HIV-related conviction since 1993,…

Tennessee’s two primary HIV criminalization laws—aggravated prostitution and criminal exposure—are considered a “violent sexual offense” and require a person convicted to register as a sex offender for life. Using data obtained from Tennessee’s sex offender registry, this study examines the…

The Constitutional Court of Uganda gave plaintiffs seven days from June 7 to file their final arguments in a landmark case challenging sections of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Act 2014 that criminalize HIV transmission and require disclosure of one’s…

  A report titled “Legal Environment Assessment (LEA) for HIV/AIDS in Uganda” released by the Uganda AIDS Commission on Friday has revealed that some Ugandan laws, regulations and policies constrain effective HIV response in the country. The Report is based…

Heeding a call from a bipartisan group of legislators, Indiana will undertake a review of its criminal code for laws concerning HIV, with the focus on modernizing state statutes and helping to end the HIV epidemic. Ten Republicans and six…