Basic Legal Rights for HIV-Positive People

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See also: Legal Issues in the Workplace

HIV & Your Civil Rights -- Poster From the American Civil Liberties Union
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The Basics

Take Action to Oppose Kansas HIV Quarantine Bill (April 1, 2013)
Your voice needed now: oppose substitute for Kansas HB-2183 today.
From Positive Women's Network of the United States of America
Q&A: Lambda Legal's Scott Schoettes on HIV Criminalization (July 27, 2012)
From AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Shereen El-Feki: HIV -- How to Fight an Epidemic of Bad Laws (April 2012)
From TEDxSummit
Sean Strub: HIV Is Not a Crime -- HIV Criminalization: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (February 8, 2012)
"People with HIV who have been subjected to criminal prosecutions have only rarely been heard from and are typically portrayed in the media as, at best, reckless and, at worst, monstrous. ... 'HIV Is Not a Crime' will bring their stories to light"
From TheBody.com
Newly Diagnosed or Long-Term Survivor -- What Everyone Should Know About HIV and Their Rights (September/October 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Positive Justice Project Members Endorse REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act (September 23, 2011)
From Lambda Legal
What if Your Food Server Was HIV Positive? A Video Blog Entry by Justin B. Terry-Smith (September 6, 2011)
Justin takes his video camera about town, asking folks on the street whether they'd discriminate against an HIV-positive food server -- and gives us an update on HIV/AIDS and employment rights.
From TheBody.com
Anti-HIV Criminalization Bill Introduced (Summer 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
Hospital Visitation Rights for Same-Sex Partners Now Required by Federal Rules (January 19, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sue the Bastards, That's What I Always Say: A Blog Entry by Ed Perlmutter (November 24, 2010)
"I know that we live in a litigious society but I am not a litigious person. Filing a lawsuit ... never once crossed my mind as a practical means to move HIV testing full-speed into the 21st century."
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Legal Declarations

Women and Criminal HIV Exposure and Transmission Laws: Origins, Effects and Alternatives (PDF) (November 2010)
Testimony for the American Bar Association AIDS Coordinating Committee on Criminal HIV Exposure and Transmission Laws.
From Positive Women's Network of the United States of America
Declaration of the Paris AIDS Summit (December 1, 1994)
From European Coalition of Positive People
The United Kingdom Declaration of the Rights of People With HIV and AIDS (1990)
From Network of Sex Work Projects

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