Enforcement of HIV Criminalization in Louisiana
Using data obtained from the Louisiana Incident-Based Reporting System and from the state’s most populous parishes, this study examines the enforcement of HIV criminalization laws in Louisiana since 2011.
Supreme Court, Second Chamber, Criminal Division, Judgment 690/2019 of 11 Mar. 2020, Rec. 1807/2018
INJURY. Transmission of HIV in cases in which the infected person knew of his partner's disease. The complainant knew that her partner was a carrier of HIV, so having agreed to have sex with him, without any kind of prophylaxis, the transmission of the disease is not worthy of criminal reproach. External evidence of the disease that the complainant had to perceive, since she herself was diagnosed months later, and neither after this diagnosis, nor when she denounced an alleged aggression, did she make any allusion to the contagion of the disease. In dubio pro reo. Self endangerment of the complainant herself.
The SC dismissed the appeal filed against the sentence of the AP Madrid and confirmed the conviction for the crime of aggravated injury due to HIV infection.
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Transmission Routes, Viral Loads and Relative Risks: The Science of HIV for Lawyers and Advocates
This document from the Center for HIV Law and Policy, published in 2011, lists articles on a range of background issues relevant to HIV criminalisation (particularly in the U.S.) including HIV as a chronic condition, coverage under the ADAAA, transmission routes and risk, viral load and treatment, and phylogenetic analysis.
Criminalising contagion – Legislative epidemics: the role of model law in the transnational trend to criminalise HIV transmission
Explains how an epidemic of HIV criminalisation laws spread across the West and Central Africa regions enabled by model laws (the N'Djamena Model Law) drafted by USAID.
Замечание общего порядка No 22 (2016) о праве на сексуальное и репродуктивное здоровье (статья 12 Международного пакта об экономических, социальных и культурных правах)
Включает комментарий (пункт 40), согласно которому государства: Государства обязаны пересматривать законы, препятствующие осуществлению права на сексуальное и репродуктивное здоровье. В качестве примеров таковых можно упомянуть за- коны, устанавливающие уголовную ответственность за аборты, неразглашение ВИЧ-статуса, создание риска заражения и передачи ВИЧ.