Reading list

Legal Reforms, Social Change: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and National Development in Jamaica

Designed to help governments and civil society review laws and policies based on human rights, and increase capacity to achieve enabling legal environments. Includes recommendations on criminalisation at p.73.

HIVMA Urges Repeal of HIV-Specific Criminal Statutes

Highlights the detrimental effects of HIV-specific criminalization and supprts modernization of laws and practices to reflect current science and knowledge about HIV, the promotion of education addressing stigma associated with HIV-specific criminalization, and a federal review of federal and state laws, policies and regulations.