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Why HIV markers on the Police National Computer are wrong

19/03/2021

By Kat Smithson, Director of Policy

HIV warnings on the Police National Computer (PNC) are not backed up by science...

Drugs policy in the UK: why it’s time to shift from punishment to public health

30/09/2020

By Calum Douglas, Policy & Campaigns Officer & Katy Sharrock, Research & Policy Officer

In August the European Association for the...

Yusef Azad

The ‘HIV Panic’ Attack – from prosecution to persecution

20/06/2017

Last month newspapers reported the trial and conviction of a man who had gone berserk in a Manchester hotel, during...

Sarah Radcliffe

Letter of complaint to the Mirror

17/11/2015

On 11 November the Mirror published an article online called 'The Hollywood actor with HIV deserves everything he gets –...

Suzi Price

What we need to know about ‘knowingly’

10/09/2014

There have been a number of reports of on an HIV criminalisation case in the media this week, describing the...

Sarah Radcliffe

What the world can learn from criminalisation in the UK

22/07/2014

At the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne there has been lots of talk about the criminal law can impede the...