HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Cameron E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2635346 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature