Toolkits
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.
HINAC Day: Kit de promoción
El siguiente kit de promoción en los medios sociales está diseñado para ser utilizado como ejemplo de mensajes y publicaciones, junto con recursos que te ayudarán a ti y a tu organización en su propia promoción y redes de medios sociales.
HINAC Day Toolkit
Use this toolkit to help engage in National HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day on February 28th.
HIV Criminalization Legal and Policy Assessment Tool
This assessment tool is designed to help individuals and organizations, including state and local health departments, to assess the extent to which a jurisdiction’s laws and regulations impede HIV surveillance, facilitate privacy breaches, or criminalize HIV infection...
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...
Beyond Blame
HIV criminalisation is a growing, global phenomenon with profound negative effects on public health as well as human rights. HIV criminalisation represents a serious barrier to scaling up the HIV response; and yet the practice is rarely given the attention and...
All Pain No Gain: HIV Criminalization in Pennsylvania
HIV Criminalization is the use of one’s HIV positive status in a criminal prosecution, either under HIV-specific criminal statutes that apply only to people living with HIV, or under general criminal statutes where charges or punishments are initiated or heightened...
Forbes 2016- Back to the Future? HIV, Spitting and Perceptions of Risk
In 2014 the South Australian (SA) and Western Australian (WA) parliaments passed legislation providing for forced testing for blood borne viruses (BBVs) of people who are considered to have potentially exposed police, hospital staff or emergency workers to a BBV. In...
HIV Criminalization California update June 2016
HIV criminalization is a term used to describe statutes that either criminalize otherwise legal conduct or that increase the penalties for illegal conduct based upon a person’s HIV-positive status. While only one HIV criminalization law can be found in federal law,...
10 Reasons to Oppose Criminalizing HIV
The push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission is often driven by the wish to respond to serious concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries, coupled by what is perceived to be a failure of existing HIV prevention efforts. These...
Phillips 2016 HIV Nurses Knowledge
HIV is a reportable communicable disease in North America; however, some nurses are confused about the extent of their professional obligations regarding a duty to protect population health. Nurses’ uncertainties can be related to whether they have a “duty to warn”...
Richardson 2016 HIV Laws
Recently, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) organizations have made a push to either repeal or amend laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV. Certain AIDS organizations argue that if a law exists criminalizing HIV transmission, it should be limited solely...