Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
HYHIL Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Month - Virtual Event
Tuesday, March 1 at 9:00am - March 31 at 9:00pm |
In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10, The Hartford Youth HIV Identification & Linkage Consortia (HYHIL) is declaring March to be Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness month. Every day we will have a different topic honoring Women and Girls Health Care.
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
HIV infections & the law
Shared from our friend Josh:
Regarding the discussion on non-disclosure of HIV+ status. This is a case from Australia.
Most prosecutions for infections have been in the US and Canada, a trend that drew condemnations in Vienna 2010, but this is an increasing trend. Prosecutions have involved both hetero and MSM.
All of these cases so far involve people intentionally lying about their + status, or tampering with condoms to reduce their effectiveness and increase risk of transmission.
The concerns that have been raised include scaring people from getting tested (ie. if you know you're + and infect someone, you could go to prison). Another issue though is that a court could rule that all unsafe sex carries strict liability. In other words, not knowing your status is not enough of a defense.
In other words, the + partner is responsible for ANY infection resulting from unsafe sex if he knew or "ought to have known" there was a risk of transmission. Just as individuals do not have the right to consent to be stabbed or seriously injured, a court could rule that the right to private, consensual sex (ie. Lawrence v. Texas 2003) does not extend to transmission of a dangerous pathogen.
Taken to its logical conclusion, I fear that these well-intentioned measures aimed at a few reckless, or even callous individuals, could be used by a right-winger on the bench to all but re-criminalize gay sex, or sex between / with HIV+ individuals.
In the end, it proves that each individual must rely on themselves for protection. While trust is great, latex is better.
--Josh
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/man-with-hiv-exposed-others-court-told-20100805-11jv2.html
Regarding the discussion on non-disclosure of HIV+ status. This is a case from Australia.
Most prosecutions for infections have been in the US and Canada, a trend that drew condemnations in Vienna 2010, but this is an increasing trend. Prosecutions have involved both hetero and MSM.
All of these cases so far involve people intentionally lying about their + status, or tampering with condoms to reduce their effectiveness and increase risk of transmission.
The concerns that have been raised include scaring people from getting tested (ie. if you know you're + and infect someone, you could go to prison). Another issue though is that a court could rule that all unsafe sex carries strict liability. In other words, not knowing your status is not enough of a defense.
In other words, the + partner is responsible for ANY infection resulting from unsafe sex if he knew or "ought to have known" there was a risk of transmission. Just as individuals do not have the right to consent to be stabbed or seriously injured, a court could rule that the right to private, consensual sex (ie. Lawrence v. Texas 2003) does not extend to transmission of a dangerous pathogen.
Taken to its logical conclusion, I fear that these well-intentioned measures aimed at a few reckless, or even callous individuals, could be used by a right-winger on the bench to all but re-criminalize gay sex, or sex between / with HIV+ individuals.
In the end, it proves that each individual must rely on themselves for protection. While trust is great, latex is better.
--Josh
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/man-with-hiv-exposed-others-court-told-20100805-11jv2.html
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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