HIV Crimes! Know the Facts

by Sero Project | Dec 11, 2022 | Criminalization Help, Issues & Advocacy

About 2/3rds of U.S. states have “HIV-specific” statutes that criminalizepeople living with HIV (PLHIV) for having sexual contact without being ableto prove they disclosed their HIV positive status in advance. View...

HIV Criminalization and the HIV Movement: The Policing of a Disability

by Sero Project | Dec 11, 2022 | Criminalization Help, Issues & Advocacy

HIV criminalization evolved in late 1980s as a compromise to quarantining people living with AIDS. View...

CRIMINALIZATION as VIOLENCE against WOMEN living with HIV

by Sero Project | Dec 10, 2022 | Criminalization Help, Issues & Advocacy

Specifically, the criminalization, policing, and incarceration of communities impacted by HIV are structural factors that contribute to high rates of interpersonal violence (IPV), sexual assault, and trauma among WLHIV. This structural violence must also be accounted...

5 Things To Know About HIV Criminalization

by Sero Project | Dec 10, 2022 | Criminalization Help, Issues & Advocacy

HIV criminalization is the unwarranted use of the criminal law to address a public health issue. View...

HIV Criminalization What You Need to Know

by Sero Project | Dec 5, 2022 | Criminalization Help, HIV Criminalization Research

People with HIV may be prosecuted for not disclosing their HIV statuses to their sexual partners — even if transmission risk was minimal or nonexistent. They often face more severe charges and sentencing for assault, sex work, or other crimes just because they have...