Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : HIV is a virus, not a crime: ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions | Journal of the International AIDS Society BioMed Central Open Access Debate HIV is a virus not a crime ten reasons against criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions Edwin Cameron 1 Scott Burris2 and Michaela Clayton3 Address Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa Bloemfontein South Africa 2Temple University Beasley School of Law Philadelphia USA and 3AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa Windhoek Namibia Email Edwin Cameron - edcameron@ Scott Burris - Michaela Clayton - michaela@ Corresponding author Published I December 2008 Received 2 October 2008 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008 11 7 doi 1758-2652-1 1-7 Accepted 1 December 2008 This article is available from http content 11 1 7 2008 Cameron et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. 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. Debate Criminalisation of HIV transmission has become a pressing issue in the management of the epidemic. Let us illustrate by referring to three vivid instances from Texas Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone. In Texas in May 2008 a homeless man was sent to jail. He was convicted of committing a serious offence while being arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct - namely harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon. Because of his past encounters with the law the system
