Open AccessHIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions
Author(s) -
Cameron Edwin,
Burris Scott,
Clayton Michaela
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the international aids society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.724
H-Index - 62
ISSN - 1758-2652
DOI - 10.1186/1758-2652-11-7
Subject(s) - statute , criminology , criminal law , medicine , law , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , public health , political science , virology , psychology , nursing
The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV‐specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non‐disclosure of HIV, is counter‐active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.