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«СПИДоносец, сколько человек заразила?»

Интервью с женщиной, живущей с ВИЧ, участницей программы заместительной поддерживающей терапии, пострадавшей от криминализации ВИЧ в Таджикистане. Узнайте, как на практике используется статья о постановке в угрозу инфицирования ВИЧ, как женщин с ВИЧ могут забрать в тюрьму просто со свадьбы, как в местах несвободы люди могут остаться без жизненно важного лечения и как неправительственные организации, активисты и активистки помогают людям, пострадавшим от криминализации ВИЧ.

Factsheet Uzbekistan 2022

The Republic of Uzbekistan has repeatedly received recommendations from the treaty bodies to amend the Criminal Code and repeal both Articles 113 and 120 as such that lead to systematic violations. The Republic of Uzbekistan systematically ignores all such comments and recommendations, despite having committed to comply with international regulations. 

This factsheet summarises violations from international regulations and recommendations from the treaty bodies.

The Threat Lives On: How to Exclude Expectant Mothers from Prosecution for Mere Exposure of HIV to their Fetuses and Infants (2015)

This article articulates how the threat of prosecution of mothers living with HIV who expose or transfer the virus to their foetuses or newborn will discourage and scare women away from seeking proper medical treatment instead of encouraging HIV treatment and prevention. It also explores how HIV-specific criminal transmission laws in the United States could hamper and stifle the progress in prevention and treatment of vertical transmission. It concludes by proposing a model for change in addressing these HIV-specific criminal transmission statutes.

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Heterosexual risk of HIV-1 infection per sexual act: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Reports findings from systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies of the risk of HIV-1 transmission per heterosexual contact (43 publications based on 25 studies).