{"id":322,"date":"2002-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:20:10","slug":"criminal-law-public-health-and-hiv-transmission-a-policy-options-paper","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/criminal-law-public-health-and-hiv-transmission-a-policy-options-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Law, Public Health and HIV Transmission: A Policy Options Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"To assist in the development of sound public policy, this paper, prepared for UNAIDS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>proposes some principles that should guide thinking about, and development of, law and policy on the question of criminal law and HIV\/AIDS;<\/li>\n<li>identifies a number of public policy considerations that states should take into account when making decisions about the use of the criminal law;<\/li>\n<li>considers the alternative to criminalization presented by public health laws;<\/li>\n<li>discusses if and how the criminal law might be justifiably applied, considering in particular: (a) whether HIV-specific legislation is warranted; (b) which acts that transmit HIV or carry the risk of transmission could be subject to criminal sanctions; (c) what degree of mental culpability should be required to impose criminal sanctions;<\/li>\n<li>concludes with recommendations to governments, police, prosecutors, judges and public health authorities regarding the appropriate use of criminal sanctions and coercive public health measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pageFooter\">\n<h1>Related Publications<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"..\/?p=6054\">Derecho penal, salud p\u00fablica y transmisi\u00f3n del VIH: Un documento de opciones de pol\u00edtica\u00a0\u00a0(Spanish version)<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Criminal Law; Public Health and HIV Transmission : A Policy Options Paper; Richard Elliott; UNAIDS; Key material; prevention; human rights; selective prosecution; gender inequality; invasions of privacy; public health law; mental culpability; HIV testing; coercive measures; prosecutorial guidelines; judiciary; police; prosecutors; confidentiality --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Criminal Law, Public Health and HIV Transmission: A Policy Options Paper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/9604\/?tmstv=1775812599\" 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":[148],"publication_type":[179],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-322","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-criminalization","publication_type-reports","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/322","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":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22313,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/322\/revisions\/22313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}