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Coinciding with World AIDS Day, Senator Jason Pizzo (D-Miami) and Representative Felicia Robinson (D-Miami Gardens) have introduced identical bills in the Senate (SB 1074) and House of Representatives (HB 813) to bring an outdated criminal law in line with the…

Translated via Deepl.com – For original article in Spanish, please scroll down – Written by Fátima Escobar When Lizz found out she was pregnant, she was also told she had HIV. When she gave birth to her only daughter, at…

Article translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator. For original article in French please scroll down.   “An HIV-positive person on treatment with an undetectable viral load does not transmit the virus,” said Sarah Schlitz (Ecolo), Federal Secretary of State for Equal Opportunities. Ex Aequo,…

Automated translation via Deepl. For original article in Portuguese, please scroll down.  FGV Law Group and NGO want to act in a lawsuit against the Air Force A group from FGV Direito and another that campaigns on behalf of people…

Automated translation – For original article in Russian, please scroll down MOSCOW, November 19. / TASS /. Labor migrants and foreign citizens who have arrived in Russia for a period of more than 90 days may be obliged to provide the Ministry…

The deputies Ana Francis López and Temístocles Villanueva, from Morena, presented an initiative to eliminate the penalties of three months to 10 years in prison stipulated in the Penal Code against those who transmit the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to…

43.       The Committee welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of 27 January 2021 to declare unconstitutional the provisions precluding persons living with HIV/AIDS from adoption, guardianship and foster parenting. However, the Committee is concerned about the…

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) – For original article in German, please scroll down AIDShilfen: HIV-positive people are discriminated against in court Criminal law should follow scientific findings. HIV infections should no longer be prosecuted. Vienna – Austria’s AIDS support…

Google translation – For the original article in Portuguese, please scroll down. By Esper Kallás A few years ago, I was consulted about the case of a person who was allegedly trying to transmit HIV sexually. This happened because it…

Automatic translation – For original text in Spanish, please scroll down. Judge declares the crime indicated in the penal code of Mexico City as unconstitutional for violating funda­mental rights. The firm Ramírez, Penilla, Rubio, Cuadra, Abogados, S.C. reported that on…

In stressing U=U, New Jersey’s acting attorney general wants to ensure that no one living with HIV is charged unjustly. New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck issued new guidance regarding enforcement of a 24-year-old law that criminalizes certain activities by people…

By: Frank Pizzoli ‘HIV is not a crime but there are outdated laws that make it a crime in Pennsylvania. We cannot have people losing lives and livelihoods because of this,’ Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta said. About 20 people gathered Wednesday…

The policy imposed an additional form of ritual humiliation on a reviled category of people without any plausible public-safety justification. The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Louisiana’s appeal of a decision against its 2006 law requiring that people on the state’s sex…

by Daniel Ho, Rayner Tan and Daryl Yang It has been almost forty years since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first discovered in 1983. HIV is the virus that leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is also commonly…

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…