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A meeting of the Mizoram Legislative Forum on HIV/AIDS was held on Tuesday, chaired by Health Minister Lalrinpuii at the SAD Conference Hall, MINECO. The session focused on the state’s rising HIV cases and discussed the possibility of introducing a…

Elimination is the goal, but migrants living with the virus experience a criminalised environment that thwarts access to care. Health Minister Mark Butler painted a largely rosy picture of the progress towards elimination of HIV in Australia today, speaking on…

Translated via Deepl.com. Scroll down for article in French.  More than 10 years after the law on HIV was passed, those involved in the fight against the disease are calling for it to be revised. They believe that the law…

Translated with Deepl.com. For article in Russian, please scroll down.  There are more and more people living with HIV among migrants In Tajikistan, every third person with HIV is a labour migrant. Over the past five years, 5,463 cases of…

An interim legislative study will evaluate the criminalization of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Oklahoma. State Sens. Julia Kirt and Carri Hicks, both Democrats representing Oklahoma City, are co-sponsors of the study with the goal of educating and correcting…

A heated exchange on HIV status between two WhatsApp group members will cost a man Sh650,000, after the HIV and Aids Tribunal ruled that one should not disclose another’s HIV status without written consent. The six-member tribunal found that privacy…

Parents with HIV who want to breastfeed are now able to — with the blessing of their pediatrician — after a game-changing report was released this spring. The 11-page report, “Infant Feeding for Persons Living With and at Risk for…

Disclosure of HIV status in public law care proceedings: the court’s approach to the inextricable link between one party’s right to privacy and another party’s right to fair trial Summary: In this law report, Darnell Lawrence, intern at Wilson Solicitors…

Translated with DEEPL. For article in Portuguese, please scroll down.  On Sunday (21), during the AIDS 2024 Pre-Conference in Munich, Germany, a group of experts from the United Kingdom, Mexico and the United States met for a crucial dialogue on…

The Williams Institute analyzed data from the Indiana courts regarding individuals arrested and prosecuted for an HIV-related donation crime in that state. Indiana has six laws criminalizing people living with HIV (PLWH), spanning the criminal code and public health code….

The Tennessee government has agreed to begin scrubbing its sex offender registry of dozens of people who were convicted of prostitution while having HIV, reversing a practice that federal lawsuits have challenged as draconian and discriminatory. For more than three…

By Alifah Zainuddin | 15 July 2024 The Act 342 Amendment Bill 2024 treats infection like a criminal offence, raising compounds on individuals to RM5,000 and granting Health DG vast powers over isolation and surveillance, among others, and CPC investigation…

Expansion of aggravated rape offense now includes people living with HIV regardless of whether they are able to transmit, intended to transmit, or actually transmitted HIV (NEW YORK) – On July 1, 2024, a new law went into effect in…

CHLP collaborates with advocates in Oklahoma to oppose a bill that would have criminalized thousands of Oklahomans living with sexually transmitted infections. The recent adjournment of the legislative session for the 59th Oklahoma Legislature marked the end of House Bill…

Translated with Deepl.com – Scroll down for original article in Spanish Five people with HIV are in prison because of this article in the Morelos Penal Code, according to a civil association; in Mexico City this article has already been…

The Bill sought to re-criminalise deliberate HIV/AIDS transmission despite the fact that the Marriages Act had decriminalised wilful HIV/AIDS transmission. Contributing to debate on the Bill in the National Assembly last week, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi,…

Zoysia Bielskithe – published May 24, 2024 – Globe and Mail AIDS is not the death sentence it once was, but Canada still has strict punishments for people who don’t disclose their HIV status to sexual partners. Critics say that’s…

The Justice Department announced today that the Shelby County, Tennessee, District Attorney General (DA) has agreed to cease prosecution of individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) under Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution law. The DA will also adopt reforms to correct…

The Constitutional Court has dismissed a petition in which health rights activists were challenging the legality of the Venereal Diseases Act, reasoning that the law has since been repealed. The Venereal Diseases Act was enacted in 1977 and provided for…

While New York has made considerable progress in reducing the prevalence of HIV over the last decade, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated hurdles to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. Moreover, New York continues to see stark disparities in HIV’s impact with Black,…

The Statehouse News Bureau | By Karen Kasler A Republican state lawmaker has introduced a pair of bills to change the laws related to HIV and AIDS. They would repeal existing state laws that criminalize not disclosing one’s HIV status,…

UNAIDS launched a campaign “Decriminalize” aimed at raising awareness on issues surrounding HIV/AIDs on institutionalized levels across the world. UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. It aims at achieving zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero…

Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality will accelerate the revision of the city’s regulations on the prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in addressing incidents of intentional spreading of the disease occurring from times in recent years, which has…

Critics say bill will deter people from getting the necessary testing and treatment, which will increase the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Oklahoma lawmakers are seeking to criminalize the spread of several more sexually transmitted diseases, a move critics say…

THE Government has listed HIV/AIDS as one of the sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), whose deliberate transmission to another partner will now be punishable under law. The Criminal Laws Amendment (Protection of Children and Young Persons) currently before Parliament has a clause…