HIV Criminalization Scan in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
This report, produced by EWNA, focuses on the criminalisation of HIV transmission, which remains a serious human rights concern in EECA, and includes findings from country informants, including women living with HIV, on laws and policies that criminalise people living with HIV in the EECA region. The report is based on data from 11 countries in the EECA region: Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Please note that this report was machine translated via Google translate.
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HIV Criminalization Legal and Policy Assessment Tool
This assessment tool is designed to help individuals and organizations, including state and local health departments, to assess the extent to which a jurisdiction’s laws and regulations impede HIV surveillance, facilitate privacy breaches, or criminalize HIV infection and related risk behaviors.
Beyond criminalization: reconsidering HIV criminalization in an era of reform
This paper reviews recent studies examining the application of HIV-specific criminal laws in North America (particularly the United States and Canada). In the wake of the development of new biomedical prevention strategies, many states in the United States (US) have recently begun to reform or repeal their HIV-specific laws. These findings can help inform efforts to ‘modernize’ HIV laws (or, to revise in ways that reflect recent scientific advances in HIV treatment and prevention).
End HIV Criminalisation in Zimbabwe
Quick media toolkit summary on why HIV criminalisation law should be reformed in Zimbabwe.
Informe técnico VIH, derechos humanos e igualdad de género
El objetivo del presente informe técnico es ayudar a los solicitantes del Fondo Mundial a incluir y ampliar programas concretos y efectivos dirigidos a eliminar los obstáculos relacionados con los derechos humanos en los servicios de prevención, diagnóstico y tratamiento del VIH. El informe explora los obstáculos en el acceso y la utilización de los servicios del VIH que estos programas ayudan a eliminar, incluida la penalización del VIH.
Undetectable = untransmittable — Public health and HIV viral load suppression
UNAIDS factsheet explaining how twenty years of evidence demonstrate that HIV treatment is highly effective in reducing the transmission of HIV. People living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy who have an undetectable level of HIV in their blood have a negligible risk of transmitting HIV sexually.
Базовая оценка 2.0. Обзор барьеров и анализ доступа к ВИЧ-услугам в странах ВЕЦА
Восточноевропейское и Центральноазиатское объединение людей, живущих с ВИЧ (ВЦО ЛЖВ), в рамках регионального проекта «Партнерство ради равного доступа к услугам в связи с ВИЧ-инфекцией» при поддержке Глобального фонда для борьбы со СПИДом, туберкулезом и малярией (ГФСТМ) провело оценку барьеров, препятствующих доступу ЛЖВ, ЛУИН, СР и МСМ к непрерывной помощи в связи с ВИЧ-инфекцией, с целью оказания помощи национальным НПО в разработке эффективной адвокационной стратегии. Это включает в себя криминализацию ВИЧ (стр. 96)
Position Statement on Harm Reduction
Acknowledges the harms caused by stigma and criminalisation. In particular, it acknowledges that the harms of criminalisation are borne disproportionally by Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Statement recognises that while people make their own health decisions, these decisions are only one factor influencing health outcomes.
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Scientific research on the risk of the sexual transmission of HIV infection and on HIV as a chronic manageable infection
Explains HIV transmission risk with reference to numerous studies, including a chart summarising per-act risk estimates for transmission of HIV during different types of sexual intercourse.
(update of original chapter in E. Mykhalovskiy, G. Betteridge and D. McLay, HIV Non-Disclosure and the Criminal Law: Establishing Policy Options for Ontario)