At its 2014 annual meeting the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates, the principal policy-making body of the AMA, adopted this resolution condemning discrimination based on HIV status, including mandatory discharge from the military based ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:36am
HIV Criminalization Laws and Policies Promote Discrimination and Must be Reformed is a position paper prepared by the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) that outlines a strong position against the criminalization of HIV status and calls for the refo ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:23am
The Canadian Consensus Statement on HIV and its Transmission in the Context of Criminal Law represents the consensus expert opinion of dozens of leading Canadian HIV physicians and medical researchers, regarding the possibility of HIV transmission in vari ...
admin - 8/28/2019 2:57pm
These statements call for an end to the use of the criminal law to target the conduct of people living with HIV and other diseases, and reflect the growing consensus among medical experts, public health officials, and policy makers that criminalization of ...
admin - 9/5/2019 4:10pm
This statement addresses 1) broad public ignorance about HIV, STIs and identities associated with stigmatized diseases; 2) the criminalization of HIV; 3) HIV related discrimination in criminal justice and immigration detention facilities, and in the milita ...
admin - 1/28/2020 5:29pm
This is a statement issued by the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) on the urgent need to address and repeal HIV-specific criminalization statutes. The statement highlights the detrimental effects of HIV-specific criminalization and offers a statement of s ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 3/29/2020 8:32am
On February 25th, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the International AIDS Society (IAS), all organizations of health care professionals caring for people living with HIV, issued a joint statement exp ...
admin - 6/10/2020 6:10pm
This collaborative document from the Positive Justice Project informs the reform of HIV criminal laws across the country. HIV and other infectious diseases should not be excluded from established norms requiring proof of intent to harm for conviction. ...
admin - 7/9/2020 1:54pm
Released by the Positive Justice Project (PJP) in July 2012, this is the first national consensus statement on HIV criminalization. This Positive Justice Project (PJP) statement, endorsed by hundreds of organizations and individuals affected by HIV across ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 7/17/2020 10:44am
The Consensus Statement on HIV "Treatment as Prevention" in Criminal Law Reform was collaboratively created to serve as an important new resource in efforts to modernize HIV criminal laws, particularly for state advocates. ...
admin - 6/17/2021 9:21am