{"id":17337,"date":"2018-12-03T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=17337"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:17:55","slug":"moving-to-end-unjust-hiv-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/moving-to-end-unjust-hiv-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to End Unjust HIV Prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"December 1, 2018 \u2014 Today, on World AIDS Day, federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould announced a new directive to help limit unjust prosecutions against people living with HIV in Canada. This new directive, which comes after years of advocacy by the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network and many partner organizations, is consistent with Justice Canada\u2019s own recommendations and a welcome step in the ongoing effort to the end the criminalization of HIV. It is also better aligned with the latest scientific evidence regarding HIV and its transmission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"12-1-2018-WAD-Statement_FINAL_EN.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/17338\/?tmstv=1775729126\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2018 \u2014 Today, on World AIDS Day, federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould announced a new directive to help limit unjust prosecutions against people living with HIV in Canada. This new directive, which comes after years of advocacy by the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network and many partner organizations, is consistent with Justice Canada\u2019s own &#8230; <a title=\"Moving to End Unjust HIV Prosecutions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/moving-to-end-unjust-hiv-prosecutions\/\" aria-label=\"More on Moving to End Unjust HIV Prosecutions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[146,148],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-17337","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_topics-criminalization","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17337\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}