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Regional HIV Criminalisation Report: Asia

This report produced by GNP+ on behalf of HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE provides an update on HIV criminalization in the legal environment and documents HIV criminalization prosecutions in the Asia region.

Advancing HIV justice 4: Understanding Commonalities, Seizing Opportunities

Provides a progress report of achievements and challenges in global advocacy against HIV criminalisation from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2021.

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HIV criminalisation laws around the world

HIV criminalisation is a global phenomenon, with problematic legislation in every region of the world. Countries criminalise people with HIV for transmission, exposure and/or non-disclosure of HIV status. This page provides a brief overview with global examples and a link to more detailed and up-to-date information by country.

Evaluating The Impact of Criminal Laws On HIV Risk Behavior

This article reports on the characteristics and prevalence of HIV-specific criminal exposure and transmission laws, and the enforcement of those laws through prosecutions during the period 1986­-2001. It also examines the possible mechanisms through which criminal law influences behavior and considers how these might apply to the specific laws described.

Criminalisation of HIV Non-Disclosure, Exposure and Transmission: Background and Current Landscape

This paper was commissioned by the UNAIDS Secretariat to serve as a background paper for the Expert Meeting on Criminalisation of HIV Non-Disclosure, Exposure and Transmission, 31 August – 2 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.