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10/05/2010 • 3:11 pm Comments Off on POZ Magazine: Positive Justice Project Seeks to End HIV Criminalization

POZ Magazine: Positive Justice Project Seeks to End HIV Criminalization

The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has launched the Positive Justice Project, a campaign to repeal laws that create HIV-specific crimes or laws that increase penalties for people with HIV who are convicted of criminal offenses, according to a CHLP statement. Currently, the United States has more HIV-specific criminal cases than any other in the nation, with more than 400 prosecutions to date. However, research has shown HIV criminalization statutes don’t reduce HIV rates. In fact, they might increase HIV rates by stigmatizing at-risk groups and discouraging HIV testing.

To read the CHLP statement, click here.

Source:  http://www.poz.com/rssredir/articles/Positive_Justice_Project_1_19173.shtml

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10/04/2010 • 3:08 pm Comments Off on POZ Magazine: Zimbabwe President Wants Compulsory HIV Testing

POZ Magazine: Zimbabwe President Wants Compulsory HIV Testing

Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, wants compulsory HIV testing in his country, the Voice of America (VOA) reports. Mugabe told Chinese state television that health professionals would only conduct compulsory HIV testing to identify those in need of treatment. He acknowledged a lack of international agreement on compulsory HIV testing because of human rights concerns would have to be addressed before he could ask the Zimbabwean government to allow it.

To read the VOA article, click here.

Source:  http://www.poz.com/articles/zimbabwe_mugabe_testing_1_19170.shtml

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09/16/2010 • 5:12 pm Comments Off on POZ Magazine: NIH Awards $2.5 Million to Study Latent HIV

POZ Magazine: NIH Awards $2.5 Million to Study Latent HIV

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in the USA, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced Eric M. Verdin, MD, as the winner of the Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research, according to an NIH statement. Verdin’s research will focus on developing new technology to explain how HIV latency is established and maintained and how it becomes reactivated. The goal is to eliminate latent HIV infection. The award grants Verdin, of the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, $500,000 per year for five years.

To read the NIH statement, click here.

Source: http://www.poz.com/rssredir/articles/Latent_HIV_Study_1_19096.shtml

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09/06/2010 • 7:21 pm Comments Off on …sterilized without consent?

…sterilized without consent?

Local rights groups in Namibia have uncovered 15 instances of women being sterilized after being diagnosed with HIV, PlusNews reports. Sterilization without informed consent, a severe human rights violation, has been described as “fairly widespread and systemic” in Namibia, and similar examples have been documented in neighboring Zambia and South Africa. Many of the women have declined to go to court because infertility carries a strong stigma in southern Africa.

To read the PlusNews article, click here.

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09/05/2010 • 7:19 pm Comments Off on For the first time: China Court to Hear HIV Discrimination Case

For the first time: China Court to Hear HIV Discrimination Case

A court in China’s Anhui province has agreed to hear a lawsuit involving a prospective schoolteacher who says he was denied a job because he is HIV positive, The New York Times reports. The case is based on a 2006 government regulation stating that “no institution or individual shall discriminate against people living with HIV, AIDS patients and their relatives.” In the four years that the regulation has been in force, this is believed to be the first time that a Chinese court has accepted an HIV discrimination case.

To read the New York Times article, click here.

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