World Health Organisation

WHO have released a technical consultation on criminalisation of transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections .... read more here

CPS Consultation on guidelines for the prosecution of transmission of sexually transmitted infections

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for England and Wales undertook a consultation on draft guidelines in late 2006 - read the CPS documents along with UKC's press statement and our formal response to CPS.... click here for more ....

UK Law and HIV / AIDS Project

The UK Law and HIV/AIDS Project is an initiative of Keele University Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice. The project is intended to provide a source of information for people interested in the impact of law on people living with HIV and AIDS, whether in an academic, professional or personal capacity. More information is available here

Criminalisation or discrimination? HIV in the dock.

A questionnaire was published by UKC in the May 2005 edition of Positive Nation, and on this website. A briefing was also published in Positive Nation and you can read that article here.

We asked for people living with HIV to give us their views on questions relating to prosecution of people with HIV for "reckless" transmission of the virus. This was the first research of its type in the UK.

The results have been published and can be downloaded here (you will need Acrobat reader to open this document).

The document sets out the results and also the position that UKC takes on the issue of criminal prosecutions for transmission of HIV, the damage this potentially does to public health in the UK, and the way that prosecution increases the stigma and discrimination of people with HIV by singling out HIV infection as the only serious disease that is being dealt with in this way by the criminal justice system.