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Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, a region most affected by HIV in China, will roll out a new regulation next year where HIV/AIDS patients who conceal their condition from their partners will be prosecuted for criminal liability. The regulation has immediately…

Automatic translation via Deepl.com. For article in Spanish, please scroll down. The Green Ecologist Party in the LX Legislature, seeks to establish up to 4 years jail sentences for anyone who deliberately infects another person with a transmissable disease such…

The move is aimed at reducing local infections as well as cases in which people contract HIV without knowing their partners are positive. Breaking with standard confidentiality practices, doctors in Southwest China will soon be allowed to share patients’ positive…

Translation via Deepl.com – For article in Russian, please scroll down. People PLUS in action The legal environment for HIV-positive people will be further improved. The process has been launched. On the eve of December 1 a letter from the…

LISTEN  Download by Zachary Green Today is World AIDS Day.   An international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and remembering those who have died from the disease. Civil and LGBTQ+ rights groups across Nevada are pushing…

Ontario’s sex offender registry has some soul searching to do. Does it exist to punish offenders, or protect communities? And how can the framework for who goes on the list, which the Supreme Court has ruled discriminatory, support this core…

Google translation, please scroll down for original article in Russian The Ministry of Health has approved new rules for compulsory examination for the detection of the human immunodeficiency virus. The document comes into force on January 1, 2021, said Oleg Salagay,…

Google translated extracts from an article published in Seronet on November 11, 2020.  The full article in French can be accessed here: https://seronet.info/article/pas-de-contradiction-entre-droits-humains-et-sante-publique-88959.  From November 8 to 11, 2020, Dakar hosted the tenth AFRAVIH conference. The 2020 edition, held virtually,…

ACON has condemned the introduction of legislation by the NSW Government that will enforce mandatory testing of individuals whose bodily fluids come into contact with frontline workers. On 11 November, the NSW Government introduced the Mandatory Disease Testing Bill (2020)…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized, this Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at L’Infosec in Cotonou, a workshop to exchange and share information on scientific data on HIV in the context of criminal law. This meeting which brought together several…

10 November 2020 Dear Board Leadership, Board Members and Peter Sands, Community-led and community-based health systems are essential for Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health that are person-centred, equitable, evidence-based and inclusive We are a group of global networks and organisations…

The Federation is working with the National AIDS Trust to tackle the stigma of HIV and provide reassurance for colleagues around its transmission. Over the decades, many officers have been spat at or bitten by individuals who ‘weaponise’ the virus…

With the COVID-19 pandemic persisting for much longer than expected, particularly in Victoria where rolling lockdowns have affected us all, it’s understandable that there might be calls for legislative reform. But I was saddened to read a call for implementation…

ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Cuerrier from two vantage points. First, the article examines the impact of the decision on HIV nondisclosure prosecutions. Second, it examines the damage done by Cuerrier to sexual…

I. Statement of the Problem: The Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE): A Plan for America initiative aims to reduce new HIV infections in the United States by 90% by 2030 through leveraging critical advances in HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and…

Google translation. For article in Russian, please go to: https://uz.sputniknews.ru/analytics/20201028/15275804/Nakazanie-za-bolezn-pochemu-VICh-v-Uzbekistane-do-sikh-por-prestuplenie.html Unfortunately, people living with HIV in Uzbekistan are victims of a discriminatory legal system. But there is hope that with the country’s entry into the UN Human Rights Council, the…

Government Mandates Reporting HIV Status, Deports People Living with HIV In Jordan, medical professionals and health facilities are mandated to report an individual’s HIV status to the government. Foreign nationals found to be HIV-positive are summarily deported regardless of the consequences to their health and…

By Andre C Wade According to the Center for HIV Law & Policy, 32 states have laws that criminalize behavior of people living with HIV. Nevada is one of those states. In 1993, the U.S. was grappling with HIV —…

The Ministry of Health has recommended some revisions to the Law on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, which is expected to help the country end the disease by 2030. The proposal was made by acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long…

By Betty Amamukirori, John Masaba The majority of the HIV-positive persons are living in fear of the law and many choose not to disclose their status. HIV/AIDS activists have asked the Government to review the HIV and AIDS Prevention and…

Google translation, for original article in Spanish please scroll down.  MYSU (Women and Health in Uruguay) opposes a project that raises imprisonment for those who violate health provisions in the face of the coronavirus A delegation of Women and Health…

This guide is an evidence-based resource to assist journalists in Canada in reporting responsibly and accurately about alleged HIV non-disclosure and resulting criminal cases. People living with HIV in Canada can be prosecuted for “aggravated sexual assault” (one of the…

THE National AIDS Trust has moved to quell fears that anyone could contract HIV via bloodied clothing after a woman was fined for threatening to infect a police officer in Newtown last week. This week C. pleaded guilty to assaulting…

Automatic translation via Deepl. For original article in Spanish, please scroll down. August 16 marked the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the National HIV/AIDS Law passed in 1990. This week, a bill for a comprehensive response to HIV, viral…

An HIV-AIDS legal advocate says Alberta’s top court has turned a deaf ear to the concerns of Canada’s HIV-AIDs community by upholding the automatic, lifetime listing of convicted sex offenders in a national registry, even if the assault conviction is…