Iowa

Resources & Groups

The Iowa Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Program coordinates statewide HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for Iowa residents. The HIV/AIDS Program consists of these components: Prevention, Care & Support Services, Data & Disease Reporting, and an HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis Integration Project.

PITCH seeks to be a source of encouragement, provide educational opportunities, camaraderie, and a sense of community to Iowans living with HIV/AIDS.

There is healing, understanding, and joy in spending time with and getting to know others who have traveled a similar journey. We can offer you:

Educational opportunities
Events
Fellowship
Support groups
Feeling of understanding
Hope
Connection to resources

Fact Sheets

Iowa: Tackling Criminal Transmission of HIV Passed in 1998, following the case of NuShawn Williams in New York State; 25 years maximum for nondisclosure of positive HIV status prior to sexual exposure or sharing needles; or for donating blood, tissue, semen, etc.
Iowa: Discussion of Revisions to Iowa Code 709C – Criminal Transmission of HIV Criminalizes exposing someone to HIV through intimate contact without his or her explicit knowledge and consent. Transmission is not required.
Iowa: Community HIV & Hepatitis Advocates of Iowa Network Iowa Code 709C summary: A person commits criminal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus if the person, knowing that his or her HIV status is positive, engages in intimate contact with another person. Exposing someone to HIV, whether or not the virus is transmitted, is a class “B” felony with up to 25 years in prison.
709C.1 CRIMINAL TRANSMISSION OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS. A person commits criminal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus if the person, knowing that the person’s human immunodeficiency virus status is positive, does any of the things mentioned in this document.
Iowa State Strategic Advocacy Plan State Strategic Plan, Adapted from Coalition Plan to Repeal HIV Criminalization in Iowa developed by Advocacy Strategies 2012.
Tackling Criminal Transmission of HIV – The Role of Public Health HIV criminal laws undermine relationships between public health officials
HIV COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUP SUPPORTS REPEAL OF IOWA HIV CRIMINALIZATION STATUTE Des Moines, September 25, 2012: In an historic move, the Iowa HIV Community Planning Group has voted to support advocacy efforts to have HIV treated like other similar conditions and threats to public health. To accomplish this, they have called for the repeal of Iowa’s HIV criminalization statute.