... Since the introduction of effective treatment in 1996, people with HIV are increasingly viewed by the criminal justice and public health systems through the lens of their potential to infect, as viral vectors and inherent dangers to society. Contrary to the initial intent of these statutes, HIV...

... Criminal prosecutions for HIV exposure, transmission, and nondisclosure have been steadily increasing worldwide for the past two decades. This chapter provides a brief overview of HIV criminalization and offers an extended critique of the progressive turn in HIV jurisprudence that singles out...

...Making HIV a Crime In 2003 the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Lawrence v. Texas , ruled as unconstitutional a law barring consensual, noncommercial, private sexual behaviors between individuals of the same sex. Since Lawrence , prisons and courts have used expertise...

... Criminal prosecutions for HIV exposure, transmission, and nondisclosure have been steadily increasing worldwide for the past two decades. This chapter provides a brief overview of HIV criminalization and offers an extended critique of the progressive turn in HIV jurisprudence that singles out...

... The notion that mass screening and treatment of HIV could effectively end the epidemic has generated enthusiasm in global health. The strategy of “treatment as prevention” (TasP) is being experimented with in population trials even as it is being adopted by physicians and, increasingly...

... at Guantánamo Bay in the 1990s, the chapter outlines how emergency quarantine measures initiated a war between the state and refugees over the form and functionality of the HIV-positive Haitian immune system. Haitian refugees—who repeatedly described military brutality and contact with feral animals...