Report of the Special Select Committee on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals (Resolution No.129/2010)
Report from GUYANA'S Special Select Committee of Parliament on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals that chose not to make the transmission of HIV a criminal act, concluding that the transmission or exposure will be a major set-back in the country's existing national HIV response, and would undermine the excellent work that is currently being done locally to address HIV.
When law and science part ways: the criminalization of breastfeeding by women living with HIV
In this study, the authors place the criminalisation of women with HIV for breastfeeding within the context of current medical recommendations and cultural views of breastfeeding. They review the criminal cases against women living with HIV for breastfeeding around the globe, examine the injustice of these prosecutions, and provide recommendations for decriminalisation.