{"id":1023,"date":"2012-03-20T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:42:08","slug":"statement-to-un-human-rights-council-19th-session-thematic-panel-discussion-on-hivaids-and-human-rights-re-criminalization-of-hiv-non-disclosure-exposure-and-transmission","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-to-un-human-rights-council-19th-session-thematic-panel-discussion-on-hivaids-and-human-rights-re-criminalization-of-hiv-non-disclosure-exposure-and-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement to UN Human Rights Council, 19th Session, Thematic Panel Discussion on HIV\/AIDS and Human Rights re: criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;There are many human rights challenges that must be tackled in order to respond effectively to the ongoing, twinned pandemics of HIV and of HIV-related human rights abuses &#8230; we wish to highlight one phenomenon of growing global concern and relevance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The epidemic of overly broad criminalization of HIV non-\u0090disclosure, exposure or transmission has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>led to unjust prosecutions and convictions;<\/li>\n<li>resulted in cruel punishments that shock the conscience of reasonable observers;<\/li>\n<li>fuelled misinformation, fear, stigma and prejudice about HIV and people living with HIV; and<\/li>\n<li>undermined efforts at HIV prevention and access to care, treatment and support for people living with HIV.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Statement to UN Human Rights Council, 19th Session, Thematic Panel Discussion on HIV\/AIDS and Human Rights re: criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/12579\/?tmstv=1775753419\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[145,146,148],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-1023","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-access-to-medicines","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_topics-criminalization","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/1023\/revisions\/21302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}