Statements, Resolutions, & Sign-On Letters

Housing Works Policy and Positioning HIV Criminalization

Housing Works Policy and Positioning HIV Criminalization

Housing Works supports evidence-based HIV prevention interventions that encourage community empowerment, safety, and self-determination. HIV criminalization statutes – “laws that create HIVspecific crimes or which increase penalties for persons who are HIV positive...

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Iowa Public Health Op ED

Iowa Public Health Op ED

HIV criminalization laws are a particularly strong source of stigma. These laws, intended to protect people without HIV from those who know that they are infected, generally require HIV-positive people to disclose their HIV status to potential partners before any...

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Oslo Declaration

Oslo Declaration

A growing body of evidence suggests that the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, potential exposure and non-intentional transmission is doing more harm than good in terms of its impact on public health and human rights. A better alternative to the use of the...

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Time to change HIV criminalization laws

Time to change HIV criminalization laws

His name was Paul. I had cared for him for several years as he struggled to cope with his HIVinfection. He had contracted HIV through unprotected sex. He’d been diagnosed a decade earlier when he first developed Pneumocystis pneumonia.  When Paul was indicted on...

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Celebrate & Honor Black Women

Celebrate & Honor Black Women

With HIV still disproportionately affecting Black women (almost two and a half times that of white women), SERO recognizes the importance and need for Black women’s voices and leadership within HIV spaces. We acknowledge, though Black women have always played an...

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