Using Science to Prove your Argument

Transmission - Breastfeeding

Transmission – Overview

Transmission - Treatment and Viral load

Transmission - Condom Use

Circumcision

Biting and Spitting

Harms of HIV infection

Transmission – Overview

HIV can only be transmitted in specific circumstances. Contrary to many people’s ideas, HIV is not particularly easy to transmit. This section contains scientific evidence about the risk of HIV transmission during sex. It shows that many sexual acts include only a low risk or no risk of HIV transmission. Even ‘high risk’ sexual acts do not automatically transmit HIV.

Note: Care should be taken when using these articles to ensure that information has not been superseded by a more recent study. It is also important to know that many of the early studies contained below continued to be relied on as the most accurate study on particular issues.


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Expert consensus statement on the science of HIV in the context of criminal law

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jia2.25161

Twenty scientists from regions across the world developed this Expert Consensus Statement to address the use of HIV science by the criminal justice system. Description of the possibility of HIV transmission was limited to acts most often at issue in criminal cases. The authors recommend that caution be exercised when considering prosecution, and encourage governments and those working in legal and judicial systems to pay close attention to the significant advances in HIV science that have occurred over the last three decades to ensure current scientific knowledge informs application of the law in cases related to HIV.

Author
Barré‐Sinoussi, F., Abdool Karim, S. S., Albert, J., Bekker, L.‐G., Beyrer, C., Cahn, P., Calmy, A., Grinsztejn, B., Grulich, A., Kamarulzaman, A., Kumarasamy, N., Loutfy, M. R., El Filali, K. M., Mboup, S., Montaner, J. S. G., Munderi, P., Pokrovsky, V., Vandamme, A.‐M., Young, B. and Godfrey‐Faussett, P.
Reference
J Int AIDS Soc. 2018; 21(7):e25161
Format
Consensus Statement
Countries
Global
Alternative links
Expertní prohlášení k vědeckým poznatkům o HIV v kontextu trestního práva ,

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