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

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...

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Autores principales: Cameron, Edwin, Burris, Scott, Clayton, Michaela
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The International AIDS Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19046428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-11-7
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spelling pubmed-26353462009-02-04 HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions Cameron, Edwin Burris, Scott Clayton, Michaela J Int AIDS Soc Debate 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. The International AIDS Society 2008-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2635346/ /pubmed/19046428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-11-7 Text en Copyright ©2008 Cameron et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19046428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-11-7
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