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 HIV Criminalisation
This ALQ edition is exploring various aspects of legislative trends towards the criminalisation of HIV exposure and transmission; as well as the extent to which prevailing ‘criminalisation’ realities, as experienced especially by positive women, lesbian women and sex workers, impact on HIV risks and vulnerabilities.
The numerous articles in this edition examine the legislative trends towards criminalising HIV exposure and/or transmission as to their inefficiency and inability to halt the spread of HIV; explore various human rights and gender implications, particularly as to the extent to which HIV-specific laws will affect women, and especially positive women, will deter people from accessing HIV prevention, testing, treatment, care and support services, will increase, instead of decrease, existing HIV risks and vulnerabilities for already ‘vulnerable and marginalised groups’, and will further HIV-related stigma, discrimination and the ‘criminalisation’ of people living with HIV. Moreover, this edition questions the ‘ability’ of the law to influence and transform behaviour, especially sexual behaviour; to halt new HIV infections, and to ‘protect’ women from ‘wilful’ HIV infections.
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Last Updated: 7/8/2010
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