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HIV Language Guide

This guide includes language suggestions for communicating about HIV and related topics.  It aims to help scientists, administrators, and researchers use fair, accurate, and respectful language and aid funded research networks, sites, centres, investigators, and stakeholders as they draft protocols and develop communications and outreach materials. The Language Guide describes current thinking and best practices and procedures.

HIV Criminalization in Indiana: Evaluation of Transmission Risk

Indiana has six laws that criminalize people living with HIV, spanning both the public health and criminal codes. This study evaluates whether these laws reflect current understandings of HIV science and criminalize conduct that poses negligible or no risk of transmitting HIV.

PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PARALEGALS: Supporting People Living with HIV Affected by HIV Criminalization in the EECA Region

The purpose of this guide is to raise the legal awareness of activists from the community of people living with HIV who provide paralegal assistance to people affected by the criminalisation of HIV. This guide is also recommended for use by activists from key populations - people who use drugs, sex workers, and representatives of the LGBT community. This manual reflects the experience of the HIV-positive community members, as well as their partners and associates from across Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), in providing direct assistance to HIV-positive people affected by discriminatory HIV-specific laws and the decriminalisation of HIV.