Report documents criminalization of HIV exposure and transmission in Europe.
In April 2005, the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Europe and the Terrence Higgins Trust published a report on the criminalization of HIV transmission in Europe. Based on a rapid scan of the situation, the report provides a snapshot of the laws that crimimalize HIV transmission and exposure in 41 European countries, and of the prosecutions under those laws.
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canada. gbetteridge@aidslaw.ca
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D003415:Crime; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005060:Europe; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans