The following summary is the abstract of the article written by the author, Margo Kaplan. This article challenges the current legislative and scholarly approaches to HIV-exposure crimes and proposes an alternative framework to address their flaws. Twenty- ...
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The Center for HIV Law and Policy and its Positive Justice Project have been closely following the proposed Legislative Bill 226 in Nebraska as well as assisting Nebraska advocates in organizing a response. The Assault with Bodily Fluids Bill would crimin ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 8/16/2017 11:14am
(The following summary is excerpted from the article's abtract.) The results of the CAPRISA 004 and iPrEx HIV prevention studies have demonstrated that topical or systemic use of antiretroviral agents can significantly reduce the risk of HIV acquisit ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
(The following summary is excerpted and adapted from the article's abstract): The results of the CAPRISA 004 and iPrEx HIV prevention studies have demonstrated that topical or systemic use of antiretroviral agents can significantly reduce the risk of ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
This document summarizes key scientific sources and selected quotations on the nature of HIV in ways that are accessible and useful for legal briefs and other advocacy work. The publication includes sections on HIV as a chronic disease, HIV as an impairme ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 2:04pm
This chart presents data comparing HIV infection to other sexually transmitted infections. These data illustrate that other sexually transmitted infections can pose similar, and sometimes equally great or greater, risks than HIV. Herpes simplex virus type ...
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This slide presentation, presented on January 17, 2012 during the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Director's (NASTAD'S) Decriminalization Technical Assistance Webinar, summarizes the current use of criminal and civil commitment l ...
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This chapter, in a larger report on the State of Sexual Freedom in the United States, explores the current state of HIV criminalization in the United States, including four recent cases involving HIV disclosure laws, bodily fluid as a harmful biological d ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
The Iowa State Department of Health released this path-breaking discussion piece on the rationale for changing Iowa Code 709C, the state's law on criminalizing so-called "exposure" to the bodily fluids of persons with HIV. The paper summari ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/14/2017 11:09am
Nick Rhoades's opening brief and request for oral argument to the Supreme Court of Iowa in his 2012 appeal of the denial of his application for post-conviction relief. In 2008, Rhoades was convicted of criminal transmission of HIV under Iowa Code § 7 ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/15/2017 12:10pm