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Activists in Uganda are seeing an opportunity to shoot down the country’s controversial HIV Bill that criminalises transmission of the Aids virus and enforces mandatory testing, after President Yoweri Museveni signed a more liberal one proposed by the East African…

State health officials in Kansas worked Friday to tamp down speculation about a House bill interpreted as a vehicle to authorize the quarantine of people with HIV or AIDS.Charles Hunt, an epidemiologist in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment,…

Robert Suttle met the man through mutual friends. There was no romantic interest at first, but on a New Year’s Eve after a night of partying in Louisiana, the two decided to spend the night together. One thing led to…

A Maryland lawmaker and a handful of local advocates have started the course to repeal the state’s HIV-specific criminal law, and if other states’ efforts are any indication, Maryland’s path will likely be a long and winding one. Maryland Del….

Having a common regional approach to the HIV and Aids pandemic is an important step for the East African Community, as the five member states get ready for closer integration. The increased trade and labour migration that comes with closer…

LANSING, MICH. – Michigan’s health department is violating the legislative intent of an HIV-related statute – and maybe the law itself – by indefinitely collecting information on people who test for HIV at federally funded clinics, says a former state…

TOPEKA, Kan. – A proposed bill in the Kansas state legislature could allow the quarantine of people with AIDS or HIV , according to an LGBT advocacy group in testimony before a Kansas state Senate panel on Thursday.

The study suggests that patients with undetectable viral loads and near-normal levels of immune cells on state-of-the art antiretroviral therapy (ART) can expect to have about the same risk of death as people without HIV. The article is available on…

A vivacious roar of 200 voices from around the world could be heard spilling out of the SVA theater last night on West 23 rd Street. Representatives from the ICW: International Community of Women living with HIV (in town for…

Recent court decisions in Canada on HIV non-disclosure are bad science, bad public health policy, and bad medicine for women, says Louise Binder The theme of the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women now underway…

DES MOINES — HIV-positive people who have sex without disclosing their status would face reduced penalties, similar to those for transmitting other communicable diseases, under a proposal advanced Tuesday in the Iowa Senate. The bill introduced by Sen. Matt McCoy…

Friday, a news report from an NBC affiliate in New York circulated the web via blogs claiming that police were searching for a man named Isaac Don Burks for intentionally spreading HIV in the NY Tri-State area. On Monday, the…

Since 2003, the Michigan Department of Community Health has been secretly collecting the names, dates of birth, risk categories, and other demographic information of people submitting for confidential HIV testing at grant-funded locations throughout the state and storing them in…

The HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), a Positive Justice Project organization, ran a successful outreach campaign to increase endorserment of the Positive Justice Project Consensus Statement on HIV Criminalization in the United States. The Consensus Statement now has nearly…

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State lawmakers introduced a bill this week that, if passed, would change the human immunodeficiency virus criminalization laws in Iowa. Sen. Steve Sodders, D-State Center, worked extensively on the bill with Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines. “[Iowa’s criminal HIV law]…

On February 14, the Missouri Senate voted unanimously to approve a bill requiring TB screening for more people and allow prosecution of those who spread the disease. Sponsored by Republican Sen. David Sater, a pharmacist from Cassville, Mo., the legislation…

We’re working to support Radiobubble to produce a documentary about the Greek HIV case – the women who were arrested and imprisoned after forced HIV tests. Zoe Mavroudi is directing the documentary. Here Radiobubble interviews her about the progress of…

A well-meaning law that created stricter penalties for people who knowingly spread HIV to others should be revised to destigmatize those with the illness, says state Rep. Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver. Moeller has introduced a bill to remove references to HIV…

A significant proportion of HIV positive patients may not be disclosing their infection to NHS staff, when turning up for treatment at sexual health clinics. This is the finding suggested by preliminary research published online in the journal Sexually Transmitted…