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News (USA)
Florida man charged with “criminal transmission of HIV” after he spit on a paramedic
HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva and the paramedic was wearing a mask. But Florida law on HIV still allows him to be prosecuted.
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Employee fired for publishing man’s name & HIV status in misleading report
CBS published (then deleted) an article that made it seem that HIV could be spread through saliva. Even worse – the police officers that supplied the info are still promoting that as fact.
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News (USA)
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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News (World)
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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News (USA)
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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News (USA)
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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News (World)
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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News (USA)
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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News (USA)
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.