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Where HIV Is a Crime, Not Just a Virus. Edwin J Bernard Editor, HIV and the Criminal Law , NAM Editor, criminal hiv transmission. blogspo t.com Co-founder, hivaction.org ( A nti- C riminalisa tio n N etwork). Overview. Where does our evidence come from?
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Where HIV Is a Crime, Not Just a Virus. Edwin J Bernard Editor, HIV and the Criminal Law, NAM Editor, criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com Co-founder, hivaction.org (Anti-Criminalisation Network) criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
Overview • Where does our evidence come from? • Which jurisdictions/countries have HIV-specific criminal laws? • Which jurisdictions/countries have ever prosecuted HIV exposure and/or transmission? • Where are prosecutions most active? criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
Evidence of laws & prosecutions • Who, what, where, how and why? • Monitor laws, enforcement, access to justice. • Missing data! criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
HIV-specific criminal laws criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
Where prosecutions have taken place criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
Global criminalisation ranking criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
United States of America Bernard EJ. Kafkaesque: a critical analysis of US HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission cases, 2007-2009. THPE1016 criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com
www.aidsmap.com/law Special thanks Moono Nyambe, GNP+ Global Criminalisation Scan Website and Report 2010 Matthew Weait, WHO Europe Pilot Criminalisation / Public Health Human Rights Audit Print edition available in September criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com