News by the HIV Justice Network

Five years ago, twenty of the world’s leading HIV scientists published the ‘Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law’ to address the misuse of HIV science in punitive laws and prosecutions against people…

These remarks were made during the thematic session on reducing health inequities through tailored and systemic responses in priority and key populations especially transgender people, and the path to 2025 targets. The HIV Justice Network is a community-based NGO leading…

Today, with the publication of our Annual Report 2022 – A Turning Point for HIV Justice, we look back at our achievements in 2022. The report is published by the HIV Justice Foundation, an independent non-profit legal entity registered in…

In the mid-2000s, many countries across Africa adopted HIV laws. Many of these laws contained important protections covering discrimination, privacy, and access to medications. Unfortunately, they also included overly broad and ill-informed HIV criminalisation provisions. The Central Africa Republic (CAR)…

The Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA) this week published an important new report on HIV criminalisation in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region. The HIV Criminalisation Scan in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia for…

Honouring the courage of transgender people globally, especially transgender people living with HIV Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, held annually on 31st March to celebrate transgender people globally and honour their courage and visibility to live openly and…

New international principles provide guidance on many aspects of overcriminalisation, including HIV criminalisation This week saw the long-awaited publication of the 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use,…

Today, on On Zero Discrimination Day, HJN was delighted to participate in a webinar — co-hosted with the Global Partnership to end HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination and the Not A Criminal Campaign — that explored how law reform is possible….

28th February marks the second HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day. Launched by the Sero Project — our US partners in the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition — in collaboration with The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, ­ the day has four…

February is not only the month of love, it is also the anniversary of the establishment of the HIV Justice Network through our founding document, the Oslo Declaration on HIV Criminalisation. It’s only appropriate, then, to celebrate both love and…

This week, our close partners in the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition, the Canadian-based HIV Legal Network, published a thought-provoking new report, A gender-centred dialogue on alternative justice responses to HIV non-disclosure criminalization in English and French. Whilst the report focuses…

A sobering new study from Russia undertaken by the Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA) has found that the majority of HIV clinicians surveyed support HIV criminalisation, with some even believing the current law should be stricter. Those who said…

Looking back on all that happened in 2022, we are cautiously optimistic that 2022 will be seen as a turning point in the global movement to end HIV criminalisation. We celebrated promising developments in case law, law reform and policy…

Mwayi’s Story is a short film about courage and women standing up for their rights that was released earlier this year. Watch the film   The film is based on the story of a woman in Malawi who was prosecuted…

En français ci-dessous The HIV Justice Academy is now available in French at academy.hivjustice.net/fr. Launched initially in English, the platform architecture allows for content in multiple languages. Spanish and Russian versions will be announced soon.  The Academy is a global…

The HIV Justice Network (HJN) is delighted to announce new members to both our Supervisory Board and our Global Advisory Panel. Following a joint meeting of the Supervisory and Management Boards earlier this month, Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare (on the right)…

Court decision upholds that people living with HIV have the same right to life as all others Joint news release from the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, Lesotho Network of People Living with HIV…

Last week, The Lancet HIV published an important new advocacy resource – a global review of the history and harms of HIV criminalisation. So many harms, so little benefit: a global review of the history and harms of HIV criminalisation was…

The HIV Justice Academy (academy.hivjustice.net) is a brand new global learning and resource hub designed to support people who want to be part of the movement to end HIV criminalisation. It comprises three sections that address three different needs: on-demand…

The HIV Justice Network (HJN) has been monitoring a disturbing phenomenon — at least 12 women living with HIV have faced criminal prosecution in relation to breastfeeding or comfort nursing.   In addition, women living with HIV have been threatened…

Preventing the transmission of blood-borne infection by imposing limitations on the donation of blood is an important and legitimate public health objective. Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, certain groups – including, but not limited to, gay men and…

The 24th international AIDS conference (AIDS 2022) held in Montreal and virtually between 29 July and 2 August integrated HIV criminalisation throughout multiple sessions – both in the main conference and during pre-conferences, satellites and in the Global Village. Australian…

A new report published today (July 22nd 2022) by the HIV Justice Network (HJN) on behalf of HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE shows that the global movement to end HIV criminalisation continues to achieve remarkable successes, despite the many challenges that COVID-19 has…

The HIV Justice Network recently had an editorial published in a special supplement of the American Journal of Public Health. The supplement highlights the importance of moving toward actions to reduce HIV-related intersectional stigma and discrimination. Our editorial, ‘Punishing vulnerability…

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Support. Don’t Punish campaign promotes justice for people who use drugs – including people living with HIV. We wholeheartedly support the campaign’s messages: The drug control system is broken and in need of reform….