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KNOWINGLY SPREADING HIV ‘A CRIME’ Anyone who has the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and knowingly transmits it to a sexual partner without informing them is committing a crime. If someone is found guilty of the crime in a court of…

Remarks for Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health – AIDS 2018 Conference Symposia“Anti-fragile: Strengthening the HIV Response through Addressing Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination Speech Amsterdam, Netherlands July 26, 2018 Introduction Good morning. Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing well…

Strategies to oppose the unscientific criminalisation of HIV transmission received a high profile at events in advance of the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam this week. These included the launch by the Global Commission on HIV and…

Bad laws and discrimination undermining AIDS response AMSTERDAM, July 22 – Discrimination against vulnerable and marginalized communities is seriously hampering the global effort to tackle the HIV epidemic according to a groundbreaking new report by the Global Commission on HIV and the…

Police finally change false HIV claims after being accused of ‘preying on people’s prejudices’  Avon and Somerset Police falsely claimed that HIV could be transferred through saliva Bristol’s police force has finally changed untrue claims it made about HIV, eight…

YOU CARE ABOUT HIV CRIMINALIZATION (YOU JUST DON’T KNOW IT YET)* is a site-specific project by artist/activist and SILENCE=DEATH co-creator Avram Finkelstein for Visual AIDS, created for the 2018 New York City Pride March. This past Sunday, Visual AIDS was…

In North Carolina, an HIV Criminalization Reform Bill Passed, but People Who Aren’t ‘Undetectable’ Remain at Risk Until recently, North Carolina was one of two-dozen states that directly criminalize HIV exposure, but in a historic move this year, the state…

BC’s HIV non-disclosure rules are falling behind Advocates for people living with HIV say they are disappointed and frustrated by new guidelines from the BC Prosecution Service on how to handle HIV non-disclosure cases. Medical and legal experts on HIV…

HIV-disclosure rule lawful, Pulaski County judge rules Pulaski County Circuit Judge Leon Johnson on Friday rejected a challenge to the Arkansas law that requires anyone who has tested HIV-positive to disclose that finding to any sex partners before intimacy. “I…

Penalisation of HIV / AIDS transmission: The countries that condemn and the consequences using the law to criminalise HIV (Google translate, for original article in Spanish, scroll down) The explosive increase of cases of HIV AIDS in Chile between 2007 and…

Veracruz government asked not to criminalise people with HIV (Google translate for original article in Spanish please scroll down) August 3, 2018 The Multisectoral Group on HIV / AIDS and STIs of the State of Veracruz which asked the National…

How new bills could change Michigan’s HIV laws Kathleen Gray  Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau Published 10:00 p.m. UTC May 24, 2018 LANSING — Since the first case of HIV/AIDS was reported in Michigan in 1981, lawmakers say treatment for the disease…

The May 2018 edition of the Positive Justice Project newsletter is available here.

Spreading HIV to your own partner is a crime but this must be reviewed, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care has said. The committee has called for the repeal of the deliberate transmission of HIV law as…

In Memory of HIV Criminalization Survivor David Plunkett By JD Davids From TheBody May 18, 2018 TheBody is sad to share the news of the recent death of David Plunkett, a survivor of HIV criminalization in New York who served half of a…

Addressing the detrimental health and human rights impacts of criminal laws People have a fundamental human right to make decisions about their lives and bodies. These rights relate to personal choices on, among other things, health care and treatment. For…

HIV cannot be transmitted by spitting, and risk from biting is negligible, says detailed case review Use of spit hoods not justified to protect emergency workers from HIV Michael Carter Published: 08 May 2018   There is no risk of transmitting…

Misinformation is the real culprit in British Columbia HIV case Police and media left out key details of HIV non-disclosure charges – By Niko Bell The case of Brian Carlisle shows that when it comes to HIV, what you don’t know can…

A Hookup Gone Wrong: Michigan’s HIV Criminalization Negatively Affects Michiganders Jeremy Merithew’s life took a turn for the worse when what was intended to be a casual hookup earned him a brush with discrimination and substantial jail time. That’s because…