NEW YORK, NY, November 25, 2015 – The Time to Act is Now. That’s the U.S. government’s theme for World AIDS Day 2015, this Tuesday, December 1. In the spirit of acting now, The Center for HIV Law & Policy (CHLP), in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), is releasing its Grassroots Guide to
World AIDS Day 2015 comes at a watershed moment in the fight for the health of people living with HIV and for the health of all the citizens of this planet. The two are intimately related: HIV has, for the last three decades, defined the landscape of ambitious, collaborative and innovative responses that marry science, rights, community-based responses and structural change.
Most states keep laws criminalizing HIV Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 11:03 LOS ANGELES — Charlie Sheen’s recent revelation that he’s HIV-positive served as a reminder that his home state of California remains among a large group of states…
Alison Duke’s film, Consent, examines the activism and impacts of the 2012 Canadian Supreme Court decision By Chris Dupuis Canadian laws around HIV non-disclosure are, in a word, contentious. An HIV-positive person who fails to disclose their status prior to certain sexual activities can be charged with aggravated sexual assault; a category reserved for the most heinous of crimes, which normally involve a severe beating, stabbing or other life threatening injury. While prosecutors, police and some of the public see value in using the criminal justice system as a tool to enforce disclosure
“Ignorance,” English poet Thomas Gray wrote, “is bliss.” While those famous words were written in 1742, he could well have been describing the legal environment of the 21st century.
Actor Charlie Sheen certainly thinks so. In a recent television interview, he announced he is HIV-positive and that he had kept his HIV status secret for several years for fear of facing legal ramifications.