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The law says any person who deliberately infects another with life threatening STD is guilty of an offence. Attorney-General Paul Kihara Kariuki wants the High Court to dismiss a petition that seeks to decriminalise deliberate transmission of HIV or any…

The Eurasian Women’s AIDS Network (EWNA) has produced the compendium “Women’s Leadership on HIV Decriminalisation: Experiences of the EECA Region“. The compendium compiles the results of research conducted by the women’s community, examples of documented personal stories and court cases….

The new law “is a step in the right direction toward reforming the system” regarding HIV and STI prosecutions in New Jersey. In January, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that decriminalizes sexual activity by people living with HIV or…

A trio of Republican Indiana House bills will be heard before the Courts and Criminal Code Committee on Monday, including two pieces of legislation focused on sentencing. One of the bill regarding sentencing is House Bill 1032. Authored by Rep….

This paper reviews recent studies examining the application of HIV-specific criminal laws in North America (particularly the United States and Canada). In the wake of the development of new biomedical prevention strategies, many states in the United States (US) have…

The Washington State Board of Health this week adopted new rules to decriminalize HIV exposure, remove stigmatizing language in state law and end legal discrimination against people living with HIV. Previously, state law criminalized HIV exposure; a person living with…

Automated translation via Deepl.com. For original article in Russian, please scroll down. Laws that restrict the stay of foreign nationals with HIV, as well as the denial of free medical care, may be one of the causes of a hidden…

Women account for 62 percent of HIV-related arrests despite making up just 17 percent of the state’s HIV-positive population, according to a report by the Williams Institute. Story at a glance At least 32 people have been arrested since 2006…

Translated with Deepl.com – For original article in Russian, please scroll down. 34 criminal cases related to the human immunodeficiency virus were opened in 2021. This was reported by the Investigative Committee. December 1 is the International AIDS Day. The…

Oakland Congressmember Barbara Lee took the occasion of World AIDS Day to introduce a bill that, if passed, would facilitate a review of federal and state laws to determine whether they add “unique or additional burdens upon people living with…

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…