HIV exposure law unjustly applies sex offender status, advocates say Published on Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:18 As the deadline loomed for Aaliyah to send out notices of her sex-offender status, she had two choices. She could stay at Covenant…
Testing pregnant women for HIV regardless of their consent involves ethical and legal issues. In developed countries it is voluntary. The test, made mandatory for pregnant women in India in 2009, was never implemented on the scale required.
HIV law: It’s time for a change Published on Saturday, 16 January 2016 16:20 Criminal charges against a Sydney man relating to his alleged infection of a former partner with HIV hit the headlines in early January. Disturbingly, one major…
In the years since social media was introduced, the world has vastly changed. Often social media is chided as a vehicle that limits actual human interaction, a forum that spreads ignorance and generally unsavory opinions, and a place that ruins friendships, marriages and families. But in actuality, social media is a tool. Like a hammer, it can be used to break things apart or to build them.
Kenyan Advocates Speak Out on HIV, Human Rights and Treatment Access for Gay Men, Other MSM Published on Monday, 28 December 2015 16:38 The International Conference on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Africa (ICASO) was held in Harare,…