HIV Criminalization in Canada: Key Trends and Patterns
Provides a snapshot of the temporal and demographic patterns of HIV criminalization in Canada from 1989 to 2020, also updating information on the outcomes of criminal cases. Finds people are often convicted in cases involving negligible or no risk of HIV transmission, and that criminal law is increasingly used against people living with HIV from marginalized populations.
L’impact chez les femmes de la criminalisation de la transmission du VIH
Article dans la revue Transcriptases No. 138, p.70, examinant comment les lois pénalisant la transmission du VIH au nom de la protection des femmes augmentent en fait leur vulnerabilité.
How Criminalization is Affecting People Living with HIV in Ontario
Examines how people living with HIV perceive the law and the legal obligation to disclose serostatus to prospective sexual partners. Notes perceptions of a changing public climate resulting from the increasing prominence of criminal discourses applied to HIV.
Conflicting messages: How criminal HIV disclosure laws undermine public health efforts to control the spread of HIV
Demonstrates how HIV disclosure laws disregard the effectiveness of universal precautions and safer sex, while criminalizing activities that are central to harm reduction efforts. Argues that criminalization uses disclosure-based HIV transmission prevention strategy as an implicit alternative to risk reduction and safer sex, undermining public health efforts. Describes how criminal HIV disclosure laws work against public health efforts to reduce HIV stigma.