Statements, Resolutions, & Sign-On Letters
National HIV/AIDS Strategy Imperative: Fighting Stigma and Discrimination by Repealing HIV-Specific Criminal Statutes
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), the organization which represents the public health officials that administer state and territorial HIV/AIDS and adult viral hepatitis prevention and care programs nationwide is gravely concerned...
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...
American Medical Association Resolution Discrimination and Criminalization Based on HIV Seropositivity
The American Medical Association (AMA) remains concerned about society's perception of, and discrimination against, HIV-positive people. The AMA: -Encourages vigorous enforcement of existing anti-discriminationstatutes, as well as incorporation of HIV in future...
American Psychology Association Resolution Opposing HIV Criminalization
The American Psychological Association (APA) opposes HIV criminalization and recommends the repeal or reform of these laws to eliminate HIV-specific criminal penalties with the exceptions of 1) a person with known HIV committing a sex crime where there is risk of...
HIV Criminalization Laws and Policies Promote Discrimination and Must be Reformed
The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) advocates for public health policy grounded in evidence, human rights and the delivery of socially just health care. Current HIV criminalization laws and related policies promote discrimination and hinder HIV prevention,...
US Department of Justice Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV-Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors
On March 15, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) published Prevalence and Public Health Implications of State Laws that Criminalize Potential HIV Exposure in the United...
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Position on the Criminalization of HIV, STIs and Other Communicable Diseases
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) represent physicians, scientists, public health preventionists, and other health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and...
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...
The U.S. Conference of Mayors HIV Discrimination and Criminalization
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has been a national leader on strategies to address HIV/AIDS for three decades, establishing in 1984 an HIV/AIDS Program and implementing a HIV/AIDS Prevention Grants Program with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Stigma and Discrimination Against Persons with Communicable Diseases
In the United States, approximately 1.1 million people are living with HIV infection and nearly 20 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year. Disease-specific laws and policies that result in criminal prosecution fuel stigma and discrimination...
Selected Policy Statements and Support for Ending HIV Criminalization in the U.S.
Understanding how the science of HIV conflicts with the rationales of HIV specific criminal prosecutions is only one piece of the work of a thoughtful advocate. In HIV criminalization cases it can also be useful to have citations to other resources that are less...
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...
President’s Advisory Council on HIV AIDS (PACHA) Criminalization Resolution
Despite the relatively low risk of transmission and significantly lowered level of harm, thirty-four U.S. states and territories have adopted criminal statutes based on perceived exposure to HIV. Most of these laws were adopted before the availability of effective...
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...
Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law
Concerned that prosecutions are not always guided by the best available scientific and medical evidence, 20 of the world’s leading HIV scientists developed an Expert Consensus Statement to address use of HIV science within the criminal justice system. The Statement...
Demanding Better: An HIV Federal Policy Agenda by People Living with HIV
Networks of people living with HIV in the United States have come together as the U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus (HIV Caucus) to outline our policy agenda for the federal response to the HIV epidemic. People living with HIV networks are organized formations...
IAPAC Guidelines for Optimizing the HIV Care Continuum for Adults and Adolescents
"An estimated 50% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) globally are unaware of their status. Among those who know their HIV status, many do not receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a timely manner, fail to remain engaged in care, or do not achieve sustained viral...
New York City Health Official Joins Global Leaders in Signing a Consensus Statement on the HIV/AIDS
Daskalakis is the assistant commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He joins a growing list of global HIV/AIDS experts and researchers who have endorsed the consensus statement,...
State of Sexual Freedom in the United States – 2010 Report
In this report you will find a compilation of information from various individuals: attorneys, professors, published authors, advocates and activists all addressing the various issues in the vast realm of our fundamental human right to sexual freedom. This report...
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...