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Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009  
Summary: The authors conclude that HIV criminalization leads to negative public health outcomes, increased gender-based violence, and greater social and political inequalities for ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007-September-04  
Summary: This commentary, published by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and endorsed by more than 40 organizations around the world, including the Center for HIV Law and Policy, ...
 
Document Type: Letters and Other Advocacy Documents  
Date: 1999  
Summary: This compilation of personal stories interspersed with factual information regarding various aspects of women's experience with HIV/AIDS aims to help HIV-positive women ...
 
Document Type: Pleadings and Briefs  
Date: 2005-September-23  
Summary: In a case brought by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, two organizations (AOSI and Pathfinder International) that received funding under the United ...
 
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders (including case law)  
Date: 2006-May-08  
Summary: In a case brought by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, two organizations (AOSI and Pathfinder International) that received funding under the United ...
 
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders (including case law)  
Date: 2012-March-26  
Summary: The Ontario Court of Appeal here ruled on the constitutionality of Canada's sex work laws in a decision that recognizes that the current provisions regarding sex work have ...
 
Document Type: Guides (Legal or Medical)  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This document summarizes the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and describes the status of CEDAW in the United States, and ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2013  
Summary: This journal article reviews data on arrests for HIV-specific crimes in the Nashville, Tennessee prosecutorial region from 2000 to 2010. These crimes include class C ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2002-June  
Summary: This paper, drafted in 2002 for UNAIDS by Richard Elliott of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, is a well organized and useful document that describes the various policy ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003  
Summary: This study challenges the rationale for the criminalization of HIV transmission by demonstrating that prosecutions of these case are unlikely to serve the public health ...
 
Document Type: Court and Agency Decisions and Orders (including case law)  
Date: 2012-March-29  
Summary: This is an order by the United States District Court – Eastern District of Louisiana granting the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiffs claimed ...
 
Document Type: Guides (Legal or Medical)  
Date: 2010-November-17  
Summary: The Center for HIV Law and Policy has released the first comprehensive analysis of HIV-specific criminal laws and prosecutions in the United States. The publication, ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This report reviews several studies conducted in the United States and in the developing world to determine the major barriers individuals—and in particular ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2007  
Summary: This Handbook is intended to guide a human-rights based response to HIV for national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, networks of people living with ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004-February-17  
Summary: This guide aims to provide sexual and reproductive health program planners, managers, and providers with the information necessary to integrate voluntary counseling and ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) describes and advocates for a human rights approach to dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Paper ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2004  
Summary: HIV-positive women need access not only to appropriate health care and antiretroviral medications, but also to HIV treatment support. This paper discusses the unique ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2006  
Summary: A revised and consolidated version of the original guidelines published in 1996, the purpose of the Guidelines is “to assist States in creating a positive, ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2011  
Summary: Using data from three ongoing cohort studies of drug users in Vancouver, Canada, this article relies on a "risk environment" framework—the theory that external ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2003-December-01  
Summary: This article presents results of focus groups of drug-involved women who have sex with men, conducted in Bridgeport, CT, Providence, RI, and San Juan, PR, to assess ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 2010-April  
Summary: This report, submitted to the Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2008-July  
Summary: This issue, published in English and Spanish, focuses on the rights of sex workers. It addresses: (1) police raids and "rescue" services that are often ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2008-April-23  
Summary: This report prepared by the Center for Health and Gender Equity focuses on the role that female condoms can play in HIV prevention, and how the U.S. needs to be the leader ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2009-July  
Summary: This report represents conclusions reached at a 2009 conference sponsored by the International Center for Research on Women, aids2031, the United Nations Development ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2010  
Summary: Sex workers are frequently omitted from discussions about the links between criminalization, marginalization, and increased HIV transmission. At the IAS 2010 conference in ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2006-March-01  
Summary: This report summarizes discussion from two international electronic fora in which advocates, service providers, and HIV-positive women discussed services and policies ...
 
Document Type: Compilations of Laws and Cases  
Date: 2010-July  
Summary: This chart, updated in July 2010, includes state-by-state information on criminal laws related to exposure and transmission of HIV for all 50 states and the District of ...
 
Document Type: Compilations of Laws and Cases  
Date: 2004  
Summary: This is a 2004 update of the comprehensive survey of HIV/AIDS related laws first published by the journal Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and ...
 
Document Type: International Commitments and United Nations Documents  
Date: 1981-September-3  
Summary: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), addresses women’s rights within the political, social, economic, cultural, ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2007-December-14  
Summary: The Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned a racially diverse group study of lower-income women with HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami and Savannah to hear ...
 
Document Type: Research and Journal Articles  
Date: 2007-July  
Summary: This article discusses the implications of the U.S. Global AIDS Act of 2003, which requires that all organizations that receive federal AIDS funding have a policy that ...
 
Document Type: Statutes, Regulations, and Agency Guidelines  
Date: 2008-July  
Summary: Public Law No. 110-293 is the reauthorizing legislation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), originally authorized in 2003.  The 2008 Act ...
 
Document Type: White Papers and Reports  
Date: 2005  
Summary: Most of the items in this toolkit focus on HIV prevention in sex work settings. Less information is available on treatment, care and support for sex workers living with ...
 
Document Type: Press--Releases, Articles, etc.  
Date: 2009-July-09  
Summary: The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), along with thirteen organizations working to advance the health and rights of women living with HIV in the United States, sent a ...