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Taking the fight against HIV criminalization to Crown Prosecutors

As the next phase of AAN!’s ongoing Think Twice campaign, today we sent letters to the Ontario Crown Prosecutors who have brought forward HIV non-disclosure prosecutions, and to their bosses. Crown Prosecutors, a.k.a. Crown Attorneys, play a pivotal role in … Continue reading

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More criminalization, further marginalization: Supreme Court’s HIV non-disclosure decisions create viral underclass

This is the second in a series of blog posts about the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions about the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure.  See the first post here, in which we wrote about the perverse, negative impacts of the … Continue reading

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Sick of the criminalization of HIV? Email Ontario’s AG and tell him

Deja-vu, all over again.  We are again asking you to email John Gerretsen, Ontario’s Attorney General.  He has gone back on the Ministry’s commitment to develop guidelines to reign in Crown Prosecutors.  And we are now seeing PHAs criminally charged … Continue reading

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We Can End AIDS March on July 24th at AIDS 2012!

On July 24 in Washington D.C. during the upcoming International AIDS Conference, AIDS ACTION NOW! will be marching with thousands of activists from around the world for the We Can End AIDS Mobilization for Economic Justice and Human Rights. Join AIDS ACTION NOW! … Continue reading

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Call for papers by journal “Research for Sex Work”: HIV and Sex Work

Below is a posting from the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, an incredible group of committed grassroots activists with heaps of integrity and a serious bull-shit detector.  They tell it like it is.  No matter the audience.  Drawing on their … Continue reading

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