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In July 2010, the White House announced a major change in its HIV/AIDS policy; the "National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States" stated that "the continued existence and enforcement of these types of laws [that criminalize HIV infection] run counter to scientific evidence about routes of HIV transmission and may undermine the public health goals of promoting HIV screening and treatment."
Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposure to HIV, which does not require the transmission of the virus and often, as in the cases of spitting and biting, does not include a realistic means of transmission. [1]
Ohio has laws on the books that make it a crime for people living with HIV to donate or sell blood, spit on someone or fail to inform a sex partner of their virus status − even if there is no ...
CHLP is known for its HIV Policy Resource Bank, [13] a free, public, online collection of research, reports and other HIV-related materials. The HIV Policy Resource Bank also includes publications from the Center for HIV Law and Policy, such as "When Sex is a Crime and Spit is a Dangerous Weapon", mapping HIV criminalization in the United ...
But that was before the fateful morning in March 2013 when Savage, who is HIV-positive, was summoned to work early and told he was being charged under an Illinois law that makes it a felony ...
The DOJ on Friday said Tennessee's aggravated prostitution law discriminated against people with HIV, citing Shelby County's enforcement of the law.
Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Some countries or jurisdictions, including some areas of the United States, have laws that criminalize HIV transmission or exposure. [298] Others may charge the accused under laws enacted before the HIV pandemic.
Blood services commonly justify their bans against MSM due to the marginal increase in the risk for transfusion-transmitted HIV. [219] Other groups with similar restrictions, or complete prohibition to donate blood, due to increased or possible risk for certain infectious diseases include intravenous drug users, recipients of animal organs or ...