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[pozmagazine]

HIV Criminalization Statutes Ought to Acknowledge Prevention Science

The increasingly refined science guiding the current understanding of HIV transmission risk in various contexts ought to inform HIV criminalization statutes, according to a consensus statement released at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam (AIDS 2018), Medscape reports.

The team behind the statement, which included representatives from Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Sero Project and others, targeted clinicians who may be called upon as expert witnesses at HIV-related criminal trials.

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You Can Watch This Year’s HIV Is Not a Crime Training Academy

The third HIV Is Not a Crime Training Academy takes place June 3 to 6 in Indianapolis, but you can watch and learn from the sessions regardless of where you are—as long as you have access to Facebook. That’s because advocate and blogger Mark S. King will be live streaming the plenary sessions on the social media platform.

HIV Is Not a Crime III gathers together activists, legislators, lawyers, people living with HIV and other experts to discuss and plan ways to reform and modernize laws that criminalize HIV. The program is co-organized by the Sero Project and Positive Women’s Network–USA.

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HIV Justice Toolkit Shows You How to Update HIV Laws [VIDEO]

A product of HIV Justice Worldwide, which is a global network to abolish unjust HIV laws, the Toolkit organizes its information into 12 categories:

How HIV criminalization undermines the HIV response

What the experts say

Organizing advocacy

Understanding the law

Initiating policy and law reform

Supporting fair and robust trials

Using science to prove your argument

Working with police

Educating prosecutors

Educating judges

Getting the message right

Other tool kits

[pozmagazine]

The HIV League Stories - Robert

“In 2008, I was arrested and charged with intentional exposure to the AIDS virus in the state of Louisiana. I was involved in a casual relationship with a guy that I met through a mutual friend. At the end of a three-month courting, he decided to press charges against me.”

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“HIV Is Not a Crime” Training Academy Targets Unjust Laws

Advocates convene in Alabama this week.

Today, 11 states have laws that can send HIV-positive people to prison for activities that have virtually no risk of transmitting the virus.

What’s more, most U.S. states still allow for prosecution of HIV-positive people for perceived exposure, even when HIV is not transmitted.

[untiltheresacure]

'We need more networks advocating for the community and combatting stigma by speaking out,' says Tami Haught of the Sero Project. 'We need to advocate for ...

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AIDS Activists in Prison Jumpsuits Protest at Presidential Debate

Over 200 activists from a coalition of AIDS groups demonstrated outside the October 16 presidential debate in Long Island, New York, to make the candidates aware of HIV criminalization

[wertheyouth-blog]

The We Can End AIDS mobilization at the International AIDS Conference was held today in D.C.

Queerocracy,  a NYC-based grassroots org commited to challenging institutional injustice within a queer framework.seen above protesting the criminalization of people with HIV/AIDS. (We Are the Youth intern Sarah in the center!)

Photo via Cassidy Gardner of Queerocracy