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On Monday, November 19th, 2012 the Positive Women’s Network — Philadelphia Chapter hosted a Positive Justice Project Community Roundtable on HIV Criminalization at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia, PA from 3 to 6:30 pm.

As the next phase of AAN!’s ongoing Think Twice campaign, today we sent letters to the Ontario Crown Prosecutors who have brought forward HIV non-disclosure prosecutions, and to their bosses. Crown Prosecutors, a.k.a. Crown Attorneys, play a pivotal role in…

A recent Brisbane court case involving an HIV-positive man has once again raised the question of how Queensland’s legal system handles the issue of unsafe-sex and disclosure. While sensitive community discussions regarding personal responsibility continue, the law has a definite…

This myriad of laws, across multiple legal systems, has one thing in common: by punishing those who have HIV, or the practices that may leave them vulnerable to infection, such laws simply serve to drive people further from disclosure, testing…

A significant number of sexually active U.S. teens who were born with HIV either didn’t know their own status when they started having sex, or they knew it but didn’t disclose it to their first sex partners, a new study…

Q&A: Prison expert Soffiyah Elijah on reducing prison costs, drug-related crimes Soffiyah Elijah, 57, is the executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, which monitors conditions in state prisons. The first woman and first person of color to…

BLANTYRE–Malawi’s estimated 20,000 sex workers have formed an alliance to fight for their interests and social justice, a lawyer representing them has said, two years after 14 prostitutes sued police and the government for forced HIV tests.

In a wide–ranging interview that poses difficult questions, Bob Leahy asks Toronto-based clinician/scientist Dr. Rupert Kaul about how can we interpret risk of HIV transmission in the age of undetectable viral load.

A large majority of gay men in the UK with HIV describe having one or more problems with sex, an analysis of a survey originally published in 2009 reveals. Amongst other problems, the analysis of the 2009 What do you…

The conviction last week of Steven Boone for attempted murder raises once again the difficult question of how the criminal law should respond to persons living with HIV/AIDS who endanger or even infect others.

Voluntary disclosure, HIV criminalization and implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy were the hot topics at the convening of the 48th Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) in Washington, D.C., last week. Other topics of the two-day meeting, which was…

The inaugural national symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights opened on Tuesday in Nairobi with calls on the Government to repeal the law which criminalises infecting a person who did not have the virus HIV Equity Tribunal chairman Ambrose…

Honestly it has taken me some time to “swallow” the Report. I don’t find the Commissions proposal to a new penal code very controversial. To me it’s a slight improvement to the old one (§ 155) and to the §…

Scott A. Schoettes is the HIV project director for Lambda Legal, a longtime legal champion of HIV-positive people and LGBT civil rights. He filed a brief in The People of the State of New York v. David Plunkett, an HIV…

October 25, 2012 Internet links shown in these posts are designed to provide more detailed information if required. This article originally appeared on PositiveLite.com, Canada’s Online HIV Magazine. It is being reposted here in two parts. Read part two: “Crime…

A Brazilian man who is infected with HIV was discovered by Gardai in a suspected brothel in Letterkenny on Monday night, Glenties District Court was told yesterday. Gardai described how they found Jose Filho, 44, who was dressed in women’s…

October 25, 2012 Internet links shown in these posts are designed to provide more detailed information if required. This article originally appeared on PositiveLite.com, Canada’s Online HIV Magazine. It is being reposted here in two parts. Read part one: “Crime…

How criminalization laws regress the gains in HIV research

Why do we have laws which criminalize HIV non disclosure? Far for me to argue the “other side’s” case – but the Cuerrier decision back in 1988 makes it clear it’s a mixture of deterrent and punishment. The deterrent, in…