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PAUL KIDD reports that the increasing global trend towards criminalising HIV transmission and exposure was roundly condemned at AIDS 2010. read more »

The role of science and scientific evidence in HIV criminalisation was highlighted in a pre-conference session at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria on 18 July. read more »

Recent reporting of HIV transmission cases in Australian media has shown the ignorance of many commentators of the comprehensive detail of systems and procedures for management of people who put other sat risk, which in the majority of cases are effective at reducing risks to the community.  read more »

This week ASHMAustralasian Society for HIV Medicine. The peak Australasian organisation representing the medical and health sector in HIV/AIDS and related areas. has made available a new resource: "Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies for Healthcare Professionals", which aims to respond to some of the concerns and issues that face HIV health care providers under various laws and regulations in relation to HIV around Australia.

NAPWA launched its own HIV Criminalisation Monograph in October last year. read more »

AIDSLEX is an international tool for activists, community organisations, researchers, policymakers, journalists, health workers and anyone who wants quick and easy access to a wide range of resources about HIV, human rights and the law.

The central component of the website is a database of over 2700 documents (and growing) on a range of human rights and legal issues related to HIV. read more »

It has become a favourite on online dating sites as the ‘polite’ way to ask about HIV status. Just for the record, it is not polite. It is both stigmatising and discriminatory.

Twenty five years on, do we still suffer stigma and discrimination? David Menadue finds that, in some areas particularly, we still do. read more »

The key to limiting HIV transmission lies in behaviour modification in an enabling environment,’ Senator Louise Pratt told those gathered at the launch of the NAPWA HIV criminalisation monograph in October.

The Canberra launch was hosted by Senator Pratt, who chairs the Parliamentary Liaison Group for HIV/AIDS, Blood-Borne VirusesA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. and STIs[Sexually Transmissible (or Transmitted) Infection] Infections spread by the transfer of organisms from person to person during sexual contact. Also called venereal disease (VD) (an older public health term) or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). . read more »

State and federal governments should make a clear commitment to reforming laws that discriminate against HIV-positive people, state and national organisations representing people living with HIV have said. read more »

Speech by Hon. Kay Hull MP, federal member for Riverina, to launch the NAPWA monograph "The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission in Australia: Legality, Morality and Reality", at Parliament House Canberra on 22 October 2009. watch video »