HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions

doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-7

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volume 11

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HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions

Edwin Cameron¹ , Scott Burris² and Michaela Clayton³

¹Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Bloemfontein, South Africa

²Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, USA

³AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, Windhoek, Namibia

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Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008, 11:7doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-7


Published:	1 December 2008

Abstract

The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV-specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non-disclosure of HIV, is counter-active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.