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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]
On January 4, 2010, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from the list of "communicable diseases of public health significance," due to its not being spread by casual contact, air, food or water, and removed HIV status as a factor to be considered in the ...
HIV can also disseminate by direct transmission from one cell to another by a process of cell-to-cell spread. [96] [97] The hybrid spreading mechanisms of HIV contribute to the virus' ongoing replication against antiretroviral therapies. [95] [98] Two types of HIV have been characterized: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is the virus that was originally ...
At a time when HIV was still seen as a death sentence, Magic Johnson shocked the world by announcing he was infected. But the bigger shock may have been what happened next. In Episode 9 of "Binge ...
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New York Magazine cited witnesses in an August article who said the brothers often spoke of "running a train," slang for the act of gang rape, when they were in school.
HIV laws also set forward extremely low requirements for conviction. The prosecution did not have to prove that there was malicious intent, nor that the defendant had actually given anyone HIV, nor that the sex act in question could spread HIV. [3] In most cases, being in the sex trade and having HIV was enough to receive a conviction.