Casi cada tipo de discriminación basado en el VIH y el estigma asociado con el – desde negación de tratamiento medico a admisión en escuelas y campamentos y hasta enjuiciamientos criminales injustificados—tiene raíces en percepciones erróneas acerca de la ...
admin - 8/15/2017 1:45pm
CHLP, in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, has released this guide that explains the simple medical facts of HIV transmission and care, addresses the legal foolishness that discriminates against and imprisons people living with HIV ...
admin - 11/24/2020 3:32pm
This fact sheet is part of a larger effort to replace that ignorance with information about what is currently well-known about how HIV is and is not transmitted, and how modern HIV care has transformed the health and longevity of people living with HIV. ...
admin - 4/10/2018 1:58pm
The National LGBTQ Task Force drafted and submitted comments to the FDA on the 2015 Revised Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission by Blood and Blood Products. The comments recommend several changes to the FDA’s ...
admin - 1/28/2020 5:38pm
The Center for HIV Law and Policy joined with a group of almost twenty other organizations and individuals in endorsing this statement sent to Douglas Brooks, Director, and the Office of National AIDS Policy, recommending critical updates to the National H ...
admin - 8/13/2020 4:05pm
Much of the discrimination that PLWH experience-- from the workplace to the many criminal laws that target them-- is based on a gross misunderstanding of the actual routes and statistical likelihood of HIV transmission. There is a broad lack of understand ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 9/21/2019 6:10pm
This study examines the validity of the Supreme Court of Canada's claim that criminal prosecution of nondisclosure of HIV status would not undermine HIV prevention. In fact, the study found that "nondisclosure prosecutions likely undermine HIV p ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/8/2013 5:30pm
This report, released on November 28, 2012 by Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI), examines HIV epidemiology in the South using 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other government agencies. The report focuses on nine targete ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
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
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- ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/14/2017 11:22am