HIV criminalization

Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran is retiring. Here’s why we won’t miss him.

He earned the nickname "Gentleman Thad" for his Southern ways, but he was less than honorable to the LGBT community.

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Gay man found guilty of purposefully infecting others with HIV in landmark British trial

The man would use sabotaged condoms in order to infect his partners - and then he would taunt them about it over text message.

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California just dramatically lowered the punishment for willfully exposing someone to HIV

The crime could have landed you eight years in prison; now it's a maximum of six months. So why did it change?

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Is California about to repeal their HIV criminalization law?

A new bill would make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV.

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Why has Russia started a registry of HIV-positive people?

Russia’s HIV rate is higher than any in Europe, and one of the highest in the world, but it's overwhelmingly because of heterosexuals and IV drug users.

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Appeals orders new trial for gay Missouri man convicted under archaic HIV law

The panel ruled that the trial court abused its discretion by admitting excerpted recordings of phone calls Johnson made while jailed.

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Hillary Clinton: HIV is not a crime

Clinton stressed the need to reform laws that criminalize HIV and have sent people to jail based on old or junk science.

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