HIV Criminalization Research
The National HIV Criminalization Survey 2021
The National HIV Criminalization Study increases our understanding of the views and
experiences of people living with HIV on laws that criminalize HIV transmission, exposure, and
nondisclosure of HIV status.
Prevalence and Public Health Implications of State Laws
that Criminalize Potential HIV Exposure in the United States
For the past three decades, legislative approaches to prevent HIV transmission have been used at the national, state, and local levels. One punitive legislative approach has been enactment of laws that criminalize behaviors associated with HIV exposure (HIV-specific...
HIV CRIMINALIZATION IN CANADA: Key Trends and Patterns
In Canada, people living with HIV can be charged and prosecuted for not disclosing their HIV-positive status to their sexual partners (a phenomenon referred to in this short report as “HIV criminalization”). In 1998, in R. v. Cuerrier, the Supreme Court of Canada...
How to Talk About HIV Criminalization with Elected Officials, Media and Others
Ignorance is one of the main drivers of HIV criminalization. You should not only understand the legal aspects of HIV criminalization, but also the basic facts about HIV. Effective advocacy depends on knowing your audience and tailoring your presentation or outreach to...
STIs/HIV Stigma and Health: A short review
This review focuses on stigma as an impediment to health and specifies HIV characteristics among all medical conditions. The impact is detailed according to impacted sphere: public health priority (screening, adherence) psychosocial vulnerabilities (comorbidities) and...
HIV Criminalization: Attitudes and Opinions of the U.S. Public
Currently, many states have criminal laws that only apply to people with HIV. Basically theselaws mean that if someone with HIV doesn’t inform their sex partner prior to having sex, theycan be prosecuted and jailed – even if they use condoms or do not do anything that...
HIV Criminalization Reform Data
Know the FACTS about Criminalization Reform progress - From 2013 to 2015, at least 104 prosecutions took place in the US under HIV criminalization laws. The US is 2nd in the world in prosecutions; prosecuting more people under HIV criminalization laws than any country...
Individual and Structural Factors Influencing HIV Care Linkage and Engagement: Perceived Barriers and Solutions Among HIV-Positive Persons
To meet the National HIV/AIDS Strategy’s goals of reducing and preventing HIV transmission, understanding factors that shape HIV-positive persons’ care-seeking behaviors is critical. Accordingly, this study examined factors that affect HIV care linkage and engagement....
Advancing HIV Justice 2
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, policymakers and politicians have been tempted to punish those of us with, and at risk of, HIV. Sometimes propelled by public opinion, sometimes themselves noxiously propelling public opinion, they have tried to find in...
Criminal Laws on Sex Work and HIV Transmission: Mapping the Laws, Considering the Consequences
Despite the widespread support for decriminalizing sex work amongst public health and harm-reduction activists, there has been little work done to disentangle the complicated way that the criminal law operates to marginalize and disenfranchise sex workers living with...