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The point of departure for this blog is the apparent frequency of criminalization strategies in early government responses to the Coronavirus. While much attention has been given to the securitization of global health responses – also in the case of Corona – less systematic…

For Immediate Release February 26, 2020 Media Contact Rachel Dowd dowd@law.ucla.edu (310) 206-8982 (office) | (310) 855-2696 (cell) The cost of incarceration related to these crimes, to date, is $17.7 million. Between 1990 and 2019, at least 593 people were…

​New laws to make compulsory the testing of a prisoner accused of assault for an infectious disease Current laws mean an officer has to wait three months to know if they are possibly infected Prisoner’s blood-virus infection status would be…

FEMALE parliamentarians have called for the decriminalisation of wilful transmission of HIV, saying women were the most affected by the law. The issue came out on Thursday last week in the National Assembly during debate on the Second Reading Stage…

An influential Republican lawmaker in the Georgia House wants to modernize the state’s HIV laws, which activists have criticized as outdated and said stigmatize people living with HIV. Current Georgia law makes it a crime for people living with HIV to…

By Michael Lyle Six months after Gov. Steve Sisolak authorized the creation of an Advisory Task Force on HIV Exposure Modernization to examine Nevada’s antiquated laws, the committee hasn’t been filled.  The law establishing the task force authorizes up to 15…

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a bill on the expulsion of migrants with dangerous diseases. Including with coronavirus. The decision on deportation will also be made by the Ministry of Health, the FSB and the bodies of sanitary…

 Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. by Mandeep Dhaliwal  The potential for technology to transform health services is tremendous, but advances in digital health can bring privacy and data…

I remember when I first heard the statement in 2017: the science-based evidence that stated people living with HIV taking antiretroviral medication who had attained an undetectable viral load no longer transmitted the virus. The slogan “U=U” (undetectable equals untransmittable)…

Former Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron, whether intentionally or not, has always been an activist. He talks to Manosa Nthunya about his writing life. In South Africa, we are increasingly becoming accustomed to the fact that from time to time…

Automatic translation via Deepl.com. For original article in French, please scroll down. Spit and HIV: the violence of words Following the release of an amateur video in which a police officer stopped and violently beat a demonstrator, a spokesperson for…

Automatic translation via deepl.com. For Russian article, please scroll down. Ministry of Health intends to introduce mandatory HIV testing for citizens aged 15 to 55 In January 2019, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation published a draft Procedure…

Three harrowing stories of HIV non-disclosure cases By Alexander McClellandJan 15, 2020, 1:31 PM EST From 2016 to 2019, Alexander McClelland, a researcher and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa, spoke to 16 people across the country about their experience…

TV outlet, Port Authority police union linked suspect’s alleged spitting to infection risk. CBS New York confirmed to Gay City News that it has fired a reporter who stoked fear and pushed misinformation about HIV transmission in a story about…

Google translation, for article in Russian please scroll down Avesta.Tj | 01/08/2020 | Pre-circumcision HIV testing for boys in Tajikistan has become mandatory. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the country ordered the country’s health facilities to test boys for HIV…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Missourinet)– Legislation aimed at modernizing the state’s current HIV laws has been filed by a bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers, who say the current laws are based on information that is no longer scientifically accurate. State Rep….

KAMPALA – In the third and last part of the series to shine a light on the impact of stigimatisation in the fight against HIV/Aids, PML Daily’s Senior Staff Writer David Mafabi looks at how the media has unknowingly fanned the vice of stigimatisation….

Google translation, for article in Russian please scroll down. Tajikistan punishes penalties for intentionally transmitting HIV infection. On December 25, the Majlisi Milli, the upper house of the Tajik parliament, approved amendments to the country’s Criminal Code, according to which deliberate…

Source: Diario Libre, December 12, 2019 – Google translation, scroll down for article in Spanish Conavihsida asks to modify the HIV-AIDS law in the country In the country there are 12,000 people who have VHI and do not know it…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to change current Missouri law on HIV that they say hasn’t been updated since the 1980s.  Rep. Holly Rehder, R-Sikeston, said current laws now actually discourage people from being tested. She said if…

Access to healthcare is a right, not a luxury. We have an historic opportunity to rid the world of HIV, TB and malaria. Let’s seize that opportunity. Peter Sands is the executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…

By Jarvis DeBerry, cleveland.com Even if you weren’t a fan of the National Basketball Association in 1991, you probably remember the day in November that Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the dazzling point-guard of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he was retiring from…

GENEVA, 2 December 2019—UNAIDS applauds the decision by the parliament of Australia’s Northern Territory to decriminalize sex work. The Sex Industry Bill 2019 enhances the safety of sex workers and their clients by applying public health legislation to operators of…

In Summary Despite the opposition from the State, persons living with HIV and Aids want the courts to declare section 26 of the Sexual Offences Act unlawful. But the state argues that the challenged provisions are clear, precise, unambiguous, and…