How HIV Criminalisation Undermines the HIV Response

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These resources consider the effects of HIV criminalisation, arguing that criminalisation undermines effective HIV strategy and negatively impacts people living with HIV.

HIV criminal prosecutions and public health: an examination of the empirical research

Concludes that HIV-related criminal laws either fail to influence or increase STI testing avoidance, unprotected anonymous sexual contacts, and avoidance of health care because respondents do not feel safe speaking with health professionals. Suggests HIV-related criminal laws compromise public health and clinicians’ abilities to establish therapeutic relationships and to undertake HIV prevention and treatment work.

The harms of HIV criminalization: responding to the ‘association of HIV diagnosis rates and laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States’

Critiques findings from CDC research suggesting  criminal exposure laws have had no detectable HIV prevention effect, arguing that by taking account of social science research, even stronger conclusions about the harms of HIV exposure laws are possible.


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