Describes a meeting of some 30 judges from the highest national courts of 16 countries in Asia and the Pacific to discuss the role of the judiciary in responding to HIV. Judges also debated the specific actions that can be taken to create a more supportive legal and social environment for people living with and vulnerable to HIV in the region.
Inside NACDL: A Lamentable Example of Overcriminalization: HIV Criminalization
Norman L. Reimer, Executive Director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, writes about the first U.S. National Prosecutors Roundtable on HIV Criminalization Law and Policy – jointly convened by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) and the Center for HIV Law and Policy – noting that the APA will endeavour to develop consensus positions with respect to reform of HIV-related laws.
Developing guidance for HIV prosecutions: an example of harm reduction?
Describes both the process and the outcome of community lobbying the Crown Prosecution Service to develop guidance for prosecutors on HIV cases, and whether this intervention has benefited people living with HIV.
Taking the fight against HIV criminalization to Crown Prosecutors
Outlines a stage in AIDS Action Now’s Think Twice campaign, which involved sending letters to the Ontario Crown Prosecutors who have brought forward HIV non-disclosure prosecutions, as well as their bosses and the Attorney General, asking them to ‘think twice’ before pursuing prosecutions.
Review an innocent soldier’s wrongful conviction
A person living with HIV tells the story of his wrongful HIV conviction.
No Trial After All!
Details Louis Gay’s experience of HIV criminalisation on the day charges against him were dropped.
Interview with Cynthia Fromstein
Reports interview with Cynthia Fromstein, a Toronto-based criminal lawyer with experience as a defense lawyer in cases regarding HIV non-disclosure. Discusses her experience with laws around HIV disclosure.
A human rights analysis of the N’Djamena model legislation on AIDS and HIV-specific legislation in Benin, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone and Togo.
Detailed information and analyses of HIV-specific legislation in seven Central and West African countries from a human rights perspective. Provides commentary on N’Djamena model legislation on HIV/AIDS (2004).
HIV Criminalization: A Physician’s Perspective
US physician, Dr Wendy Armstrong’s, first person account of the prosecution of one of her patients is a rare published work about HIV criminalization by a practicing HIV medical practitioner. The article walks the reader through Dr Armstrong’s experience as she is forced to testify against a patient in HIV criminalization proceedings.