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Policy Brief: Criminalization of HIV Transmission

File Type: Adobe Acrobat PDF Document Type:
Policy
File Size: 162.59 KB Date Published: 2008-11-10
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UNAIDS, UNDP

Description

The two main reasons advanced for criminalising HIV transmission are to:
- punish harmful conduct by imposing criminal penalties, and
- prevent HIV transmission by deterring or changing risk behaviours.
Except in the rare cases of intentional HIV transmission, applying criminal law to HIV transmission does not serve these goals.

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