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Important new resource, SALC’s HIV Criminalisation Defence Case Compendium, published this week

15 February 2018

An important new resource for lawyers defending clients and working on strategic litigation was published by the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) this week. SALC is one of the newest members of HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE Steering Committee. The HIV Criminalisation…

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Apply now for the first European HIV Academy for Enabling Legal Environments, September 13-14, Berlin

12 July 2017

A call for applications for the European HIV Academy for Enabling Legal Environments is now open. This two-day training academy for people living with and affected by HIV, is dedicated to skills building for addressing punitive or disabling legal environments….

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HIV Justice Network presents important new HIV criminalisation data today at AIDS 2016

21 July 2016

Today, at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, the HIV Justice Network and GNP+ will present important new data on HIV criminalisation based on updated research from our Advancing HIV Justice 2 report. Global Trends in HIV Criminalisation (Download the…

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Germany: Aachen Court re-evaluates key ‘mens rea’ requirement in German law, rules HIV transmission without disclosure is negligent injury, not intentional harm

30 March 2015

Last week, for the first time a German court ruled that HIV transmission without prior disclosure was negligent injury, rather than intentional harm. The District Court of Aachen sentenced a 43 year-old man to one year and nine months on…

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Germany: Female sex worker with HIV found guilty again of perceived ‘HIV exposure’ locked up for at least nine years under ‘preventive detention’ law [Updated]

16 October 2014

The District Court of Oldenburg has sent a 30-year-old female sex worker to prison for at least nine years under Germany’s ‘preventive detention’ law, because she has shown a pattern of not disclosing to clients that she was living with…

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EATG seeks to ensure that Europe-wide standards of up-to-date scientific evidence limit overly broad HIV criminalisation

28 October 2013

EATG’s new position paper on prosecutions for HIV non-disclosure, exposure and/or transmission published last week recommends that the criminal law should only be used in extremely rare and unusual cases where HIV is maliciously and intentionally transmitted and that Europe-wide…

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Video toolkit: How to advocate for prosecutorial guidelines

30 May 2013

New guidance from UNAIDS to limit the overly broad use of criminal laws to regulate and punish people living with HIV who are accused of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and/or transmission, recommends that: Countries should develop and implement prosecutorial and police…

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Germany: National AIDS Council releases powerful policy statement on HIV criminalisation

13 March 2013

The German National AIDS Council – an independent advisory body of the Ministry of Health consisting of experts from the fields of research, medical care, public health services, ethics, law, social sciences, as well as people from the civil society…

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Video: Seminar on HIV Criminalisation, Berlin, 20 September 2012 (EATG/DAH/IPPF/HIV in Europe)

23 October 2012

This international conference on the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, potential or perceived HIV exposure and non-intentional HIV transmission took place at the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin on 20th September 2012. HIV advocates, law and human rights experts and other concerned…

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Germany: Nadja Benaissa trial is a distracting sideshow

17 August 2010

Too much focus on the individual issues of personal morality of the Nadja Benaissa case in press reports around the world (822 and counting) and during my three live interviews with BBC World Service radio yesterday (the first of which…

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Germany: After Nadja Benaissa, two more women prosecuted for HIV exposure and transmission

7 May 2010

Until the very public arrest of German pop singer, Nadja Benaissa in 2009, all of the approximately 20 prosecutions and 15 convictions that had taken place in Germany had involved male defendants. Over the past few months, however two more…

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Germany: Man accused of intentional sexual transmission; complainant gives interview

16 October 2009

An HIV-positive man has been arrested in the northern German city of Kiel accused of grievous bodily harm following a complaint from a 39 year-old woman who recently tested HIV-positive and who claims the man lied about his HIV status…

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Germany: African migrant gets further eight years in prison for HIV exposure

5 August 2009

A court in Würzburg, Bavaria has found a 41 year-old man originally from Kenya guilty of HIV exposure for a second time. Already serving a five-and-half-year sentence imposed in 2007 for having unprotected sex without disclosure with seven women, of…

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Germany: Nadja Benaissa gives TV interview, claims she’s been blackmailed

2 July 2009

Nadja Benaissa, the German pop star who is the highest-profile person ever to have been accused of criminal HIV exposure and transmission yesterday gave her first interview since her arrest – on national TV! Talking to a very sympathetic Günther…

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Germany: Justice Minister says prosecutor handled Nadja Benaissa arrest properly

30 April 2009

Hessian Minister of Justice, Joerg-Uwe Hahn has dismissed all criticism of the actions of Ger Neuber, the Darmstadt prosecutor who arranged for the public arrest and immediate incarceration of Nadja Benaissa, and then issued a press release. According to the…

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Germany: Complexities of scientific evidence discussed in Spiegel magazine article

17 April 2009

The plight of Nadja Benaissa, the No Angels singer arrested last week in Frankfurt for alleged criminal HIV exposure and transmission has already resulted in more international media attention on the issues around criminalisation than any other case I’m aware…

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Germany: Media ban ignored, more details emerge in Nadja Benaissa case

16 April 2009

Update: Nadja Benaissa may soon be out on bail, according to an English-language report in The Local that summarises a story in today’s Stern. Nearly a week after being arrested, the 26-year-old’s lawyer Christian Schertz is talking with the state…

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Germany: Nadja Benaissa’s lawyers win injunction to prevent further media reports

15 April 2009

Lawyers for No Angels singer, Nadja Benaissa, have sought and won an injunction against Bild, the Berlin-based tabloid that broke the news of her arrest for alleged HIV exposure and transmission, that forbids the paper to run any further stories…

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Germany: Pop star arrested for criminal HIV exposure and transmission

14 April 2009

Nadja Benaissa, 26, one of the members of Germany’s biggest girl group, No Angels, was arrested in Frankfurt last Saturday, following complaints from three men that she had unprotected sex with them without disclosing that she was HIV-positive. One of…

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News by the HIV Justice Network

Important new resource, SALC’s HIV Criminalisation Defence Case Compendium, published this week

Apply now for the first European HIV Academy for Enabling Legal Environments, September 13-14, Berlin

HIV Justice Network presents important new HIV criminalisation data today at AIDS 2016

Germany: Aachen Court re-evaluates key ‘mens rea’ requirement in German law, rules HIV transmission without disclosure is negligent injury, not intentional harm

Germany: Female sex worker with HIV found guilty again of perceived ‘HIV exposure’ locked up for at least nine years under ‘preventive detention’ law [Updated]

EATG seeks to ensure that Europe-wide standards of up-to-date scientific evidence limit overly broad HIV criminalisation

Video toolkit: How to advocate for prosecutorial guidelines

Germany: National AIDS Council releases powerful policy statement on HIV criminalisation

Video: Seminar on HIV Criminalisation, Berlin, 20 September 2012 (EATG/DAH/IPPF/HIV in Europe)

Germany: Nadja Benaissa trial is a distracting sideshow

Germany: After Nadja Benaissa, two more women prosecuted for HIV exposure and transmission

Germany: Man accused of intentional sexual transmission; complainant gives interview

Germany: African migrant gets further eight years in prison for HIV exposure

Germany: Nadja Benaissa gives TV interview, claims she’s been blackmailed

Germany: Justice Minister says prosecutor handled Nadja Benaissa arrest properly

Germany: Complexities of scientific evidence discussed in Spiegel magazine article

Germany: Media ban ignored, more details emerge in Nadja Benaissa case

Germany: Nadja Benaissa’s lawyers win injunction to prevent further media reports

Germany: Pop star arrested for criminal HIV exposure and transmission

News curated from other sources

US: Oklahoma looking at additional criminalisation of sexually transmitted infections

Zimbabwe: Bill includes HIV in expanded list of STIs with criminal penalties for "deliberate" transmission

US: Louisiana HIV decriminalisation bill to be revisited at a later date

Brazil: Proposed bill seeks to increase penalties in cases of HIV transmission

US: Bill to end felony charges for people with HIV in prostitution cases removes the last relic of HIV criminalization laws

US: Maryland lawmakers sponsor bill aiming to repeal HIV criminalisation law

US: Kentucky bill proposes downgrading HIV transmission charges from felony to misdemeanour

Singapore: People with undetectable viral load no longer required to disclose their HIV status under new law

Mexico: Activists call for congress to repeal HIV Criminalisation statute in Tlaxcala

Mexico: Colima State repeals "danger of contagion" article from its criminal code