HIV criminalisation cases

The latest cases curated for the HIV Justice Network from global news reports.

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Tajikistan: 505 sex workers detained and forced to HIV and STI testing by the police

Latest update 12 June 2014

Tajikistan Sex workers Women

Sweden: Woman charged for alleged HIV-exposure given conditional sentence and a fine

Latest update 11 June 2014

Sweden Alleged sexual exposure Women

Saudi Arabia: Syrian women beggars who had sex with two young Saudi men accused of being Assad’s agents after the men are diagnosed with HIV

Latest update 24 January 2014

Saudi Arabia Media/Public Opinion Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Sex workers Women

US: Ohio sex worker with HIV, whose case inspired an HIV-specific sex work law in 1996, arrested again

Latest update 14 December 2013

Ohio USA Sex workers Women

US: Ohio woman, 20, sentenced to four years in prison for HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 23 November 2013

Ohio USA Alleged sexual exposure Women Youth

[Update]US: Georgia’s HIV-specific criminal law to face constitutional challenge following woman’s non-disclosure conviction

Latest update 21 October 2013

Georgia USA Defence lawyers Alleged sexual exposure Women

Botswana: Woman from Zimbabwe faces ‘deliberate HIV transmission’ charge for breastfeeding neighbour’s baby

Latest update 16 October 2013

Botswana Breastfeeding Women

Russia: woman gets 1 year 3 months in prison for HIV non-disclosure and exposure in Perm region

Latest update 30 August 2013

Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Florida sex worker charged with ‘criminal transmission of HIV’ for not disclosing her HIV status to undercover cops

Latest update 30 June 2013

Florida USA Sex workers Women

US: Tennessee woman with HIV charged with ‘aggravated prostitution’ for offering sex to undercover cops

Latest update 24 June 2013

Tennessee USA Sex workers Women

Ukraine: Luhansk woman amnestied as earlier she had two-year sentence for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 10 June 2013

Ukraine Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Ohio woman charged with same crime – felonious assault – for both HIV non-disclosure and knife stabbing

Latest update 2 January 2013

Ohio USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Sweden: Court of Appeal reduces 1.5 year sentence to 8 months for a Falun woman previously convicted of attempted aggravated assault for unprotected sex

Latest update 13 December 2012

Sweden Alleged sexual exposure Women

Ukraine: In Dnipropetrovsk region, woman released with a two-year probation sentence for HIV exposure

Latest update 28 November 2012

Ukraine Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: South Carolina female sex worker arrested for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 12 September 2012

South Carolina USA Alleged sexual exposure Sex workers Women

Ukraine: Donetsk woman found guilty of ‘HIV exposure’ to two men, receives a 2-year suspended sentence

Latest update 25 June 2012

Ukraine Alleged sexual exposure Women

Belarus: young woman from Brest charged with 3 years in jail and a fine for HIV transmission

Latest update 5 March 2012

Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

Austria: HIV denialist woman sentenced in Graz to 14 months in prison for transmitting HIV to her baby

Latest update 5 March 2012

Austria Breastfeeding Vertical transmission Migrants Women

Ukraine: Appeal court still finds woman criminally liable for husband and child’s HIV-related deaths, but reduces her sentence to probation instead of four years in prison

Latest update 3 January 2012

Ukraine Alleged sexual transmission Women

Moldova: incarcerated HIV+ woman who bit a prison officer sentenced to another 4 years 8 months in jail

Latest update 23 May 2011

Moldova Alleged sexual exposure Biting Women

[Update]Canada: (with documents) Montreal woman prosecuted in revenge, sentenced to a year in the community, acquitted on appeal

Latest update 28 April 2011

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: woman charged with 4,5 years in jail for HIV transmission in Bashkiria based on hospital’s information

Latest update 7 September 2010

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]Germany: Nadja Benaissa given a two-year suspended sentence

Latest update 26 August 2010

Germany Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Michigan woman gets 11 months for non-disclosure

Latest update 20 August 2010

Michigan USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Austria: 42-year-old woman sentenced in Salzburg to 8 months suspended for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 19 March 2010

Austria Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: in Maloyaroslavletz woman convicted of HIV transmission to two men, found guilty and sentenced to 1 year 7 month in prison

Latest update 21 January 2010

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Belarus: 35-year-old woman is prosecuted for HIV transmission in Hrodno region

Latest update 30 November 2009

Belarus Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Moscow police prosecutes HIV+ woman for HIV transmission to her boyfriend as she knew about her HIV-status before the relationships

Latest update 4 October 2009

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]US: Michigan strip club employee pleads ‘no contest’ to HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 14 July 2009

Michigan USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Florida woman accused of HIV exposure

Latest update 9 May 2009

Florida USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

Canada: Ontario woman pleads guilty, gets four years in prison

Latest update 9 March 2009

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Sex workers Women

[Update]US: Michigan woman sentenced to time served and 5 years probation for HIV exposure charges in Kalamazoo

Latest update 8 December 2008

Michigan USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]France: Woman receives five year suspended sentence for HIV transmission to ex-husband

Latest update 5 December 2008

On Wednesday, a 39 year-old HIV-positive woman from Orleans in north-central France was found guilty of the French crime of “administration de substance nuisible par conjoint ou concubin ayant entraîné une infirmité permanente” (administering a harmful substance to one’s spouse…

France Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Florida woman guilty of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Latest update 28 October 2008

In what appears to be the first successful case of a criminal prosecution for mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the US (a Canadian woman was prosecuted under similar circumtances in 2006), a Florida woman has been sentenced to two years’…

Florida USA Vertical transmission Women

[Update]US: Mississippi woman gets 10 years, nine suspended, for HIV exposure

Latest update 8 October 2008

Mississippi USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Canada: Ontario woman acquitted of criminal HIV exposure

Latest update 15 August 2008

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Russia: young woman in Zlatoust will have 6-month probation for HIV non-disclosure and potential transmission to her lover

Latest update 3 July 2008

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

Canada: Montreal domestic violence victim guilty of HIV exposure

Latest update 3 May 2008

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Zimbabwe: Woman pleads guilty to unprotected sex, gets five years suspended sentence

Latest update 9 April 2008

Zimbabwe Alleged sexual exposure Women

Canada: Condom use no defence for HIV exposure liability

Latest update 25 February 2008

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

US: Iowa woman receives probation after pleading guilty to criminal HIV transmission

Latest update 27 November 2007

Iowa USA Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: Sverdlovsk regional court sentenced a woman to 4,5 years in prison for HIV non-disclosure and perceived transmission to three men

Latest update 20 November 2007

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women

US: Missouri woman sentenced to 10 years for HIV exposure

Latest update 18 October 2007

Missouri USA Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Canada: Ontario woman sentenced to two years for HIV transmission

Latest update 18 August 2007

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Women

Russia: 17-year-old girl from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski prosecuted for HIV transmission to four man; she can face up to 8 years in prison

Latest update 28 April 2007

Russian Federation Alleged sexual transmission Women Youth

Sweden: Woman living with HIV sentenced to 2 years and 5 months for HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 28 April 2006

Sweden Alleged sexual exposure Women

Cyprus: Court sentenced British woman to 7 months in jail for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 28 April 1998

Cyprus Alleged sexual exposure Women