The Center for HIV Law and Policy challenges barriers to the rights and health of people affected by HIV through legal advocacy, high-impact policy initiatives, and creation of cross-issue partnerships, networks, and resources. We support movement building that amplifies the power of individuals and communities to mobilize for change that is rooted in racial, gender, and economic justice.

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  1. HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health, excerpt of Chapter 2, Punishing Vulnerability: Criminalization of HIV Transmission, Exposure and Non-Disclosure, Global Commission on HIV and the Law (2012)

    Global Commission.jpg Source: UNAIDS/D. Kim/Korea This excerpt from the July 2012 report Global Commission on HIV and the Law: Rights, Risks and Health gives an overview of international trends in HIV criminalization.  It gives specific examples of laws i ...

    admin - 8/28/2019 4:42pm

  2. Charges for Criminal Exposure to HIV and Aggravated Prostitution Filed in the Nashville, Tennessee Prosecutorial Region 2000-2010, Carol L. Galletly and Zita Lazzarini, AIDS and Behavior (2013)

    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 felonies of criminal exposure of another to HIV or hepatitis B or C, and aggravated prost ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 6/15/2017 11:57am

  3. Resolution on Ending Federal and State HIV-Specific Criminal Laws, Prosecutions, and Civil Commitments, President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) (2013)

    The President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS voted on February 7, 2013, to approve a resolution calling for federal action against HIV criminalization. The resolution includes the following recommendations: 1. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 6/15/2017 12:03pm

  4. Prosecuting HIV Nondisclosure, Iowa Public Radio (February 9, 2012)

    This is a link to a February 2012 Iowa Public Radio audio news story on Iowa's HIV-specific law, which criminalizes HIV "exposure" and nondisclosure of one's HIV status. The story features Donald Bogardus, an HIV-positive Iowan who fac ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:13pm

  5. Doe, et al. v. Jindal, et al., No. 11-388 (E.D. La. Mar. 29, 2012)

    This is an order by the United States District Court – Eastern District of Louisiana granting the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiffs claimed mandatory sex offender registration under the harsher of Louisiana's two solicitati ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:20pm