Legislating the pandemic: A global survey of HIV/AIDS in criminal law

Worth, Heather; Patton, Cindy; McGehee, Margaret T.

doi:10.1525/srsp.2005.2.2.15

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“…Legislation criminalizing not disclosing seropositivity to sexual partners is increasing. 55 However, nearly all the participants said that they had no idea if such laws existed or if they were enforceable. A greater awareness is needed of what these policies and laws mean for individuals who, for example, adopt personal disclosure policies of telling sexual partners except in the case of sex venues where people are assumed knowledgeable of the HIV transmission risks.…”

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“…54 Willful exposure=transmission of HIV is a crime in many jurisdictions worldwide. 55 There are, however, documented differences in concern about passing the virus to others. Compared to others who attributed responsibility for having become HIV infected to themselves or as being shared with the person who passed the virus to them, persons who blame others for their infection or who have unresolved anger may use maladaptive coping, express less concern about potentially transmitting HIV, and have unprotected intercourse.…”

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Formation of Personal HIV Disclosure Policies among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men

Rutledge

2009

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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Given the increasing emphasis on ''prevention with positives'' programs designed to promote HIV transmission risk reduction among people living with HIV=AIDS, better understanding of influences upon serostatus disclosure in sexual situations is needed. Based on grounded theory analyses of individual interviews, this exploratory research hypothesizes and interprets how 15 HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) formed personal HIV disclosure policies for sexual situations. Participants described five elements influencing development of their personal policies, including: (1) making sense of having been infected, (2) envisioning sex as an HIV-positive man, (3) sorting through feelings of responsibility for others, (4) responding to views of friends and the gay community, and (5) anticipating reactions and consequences of disclosure. The article concludes with implications for current initiatives for prevention with positives.

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Formation of Personal HIV Disclosure Policies among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men

Rutledge

2009

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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“…As recently as March 2005, various pundits made innuendoes about quarantining people with HIV (Pinkerton, 2005), even though quarantining people has traditionally been legally sanctioned only in cases of communicable diseases that are easily spread. Finally, increasing numbers of persons with HIV are being prosecuted for not revealing their HIV status to sex partners who subsequently test HIV+ (Worth, Patton, & McGehee, 2005; for additional information about policy level interventions, see also Shriver, Everett, & Morin, 2000). These contexts likely have consequences for HIV disclosure to sexual partners and to social and health service practitioners.…”

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Single-Session Motivational Enhancement Counseling to Support Change Toward Reduction of HIV Transmission by HIV Positive Persons

Rutledge

2006

Arch Sex Behav

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Given the enormous successes in treating HIV disease with antiretroviral therapies, there is a burgeoning population of healthy, sexually active HIV+ men and women. Because HIV prevention counseling has focused traditionally on persons at risk of becoming infected, there is an urgent mandate to explore ways to engage HIV+ persons in transmission risk reduction counseling. Using two case examples, this article presents an overview of motivational interviewing in a single counseling session as a promising treatment for addressing ambivalence about safer sex with HIV+ persons.

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“…What had been a devastating lethal disease caused by the new human retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) yielded to intense efforts to devise therapies that prolonged the lives of young people in their prime. With the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) in 1996, 1 it was tempting to hope that science was close to vanquishing the new foe: AIDS had been converted into a manageable chronic disease.…”

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The Case Against Criminalization of HIV Transmission

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Cameron²

2008

JAMA

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Throughout the HIV epidemic, criminal law has been invoked to deter and punish sexual transmission. The public health community has not favored the enactment of criminal laws specifically targeting people with HIV, nor endorsed the application of general criminal laws to HIV -but neither has it taken a vigorous stand against them. Meanwhile, governments continue to adopt HIV-specific criminal laws, and individuals with HIV continue to be prosecuted under general criminal law around the world. This comment argues that criminal law cannot draw reasonable, enforceable lines between criminal and non-criminal behavior, nor protect individuals or society from HIV transmission. In the protection of women, it is a poor substitute for policies that go to the roots of subordination and gender-based violence. The use of criminal law to address HIV is inappropriate except in rare cases where a person acts with conscious intent to transmit HIV and does so.

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Legislating the pandemic: A global survey of HIV/AIDS in criminal law

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Formation of Personal HIV Disclosure Policies among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men

Formation of Personal HIV Disclosure Policies among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men

Single-Session Motivational Enhancement Counseling to Support Change Toward Reduction of HIV Transmission by HIV Positive Persons

The Case Against Criminalization of HIV Transmission

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