Transmission

This HIV Policy Resource Bank category includes materials focused on the basic facts of HIV transmission: how it does and does not occur, and the different transmission risks through various identified routes. However, these materials also focus on disputes or misunderstandings about the routes and relative risks of HIV transmission and how those misunderstadings affect policy and legal decisions.

Highlighted Resources

Transmission

Sample Expert Statement on HIV Transmission Risk, Center for HIV Law & Policy (2009)

HIV and Its Transmission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999

Determinants of Per-Coital-Act HIV-1 Infectivity Among African HIV-1–Serodiscordant Couples, James P. Hughes et al., J. Infect. Dis. (2012).

Bibliography on Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure, Exposure, and Transmission, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University (2018)

U.S.-Based Advocacy Against HIV Criminalization: The Positive Justice Project, Slide Presentation, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2012)

Chart: HIV, STIs and Relative Risks in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2011)

Hormonal Contraception and HIV: Weighing the Evidence and Balancing the Risks (2011)

Antiretroviral Therapy for Prevention of HIV Transmission in HIV-discordant Couples (Review). Andrew Anglemyer et al. The Cochrane Collaboration (2011)

Transmission Routes, Viral Loads and Relative Risks: The Science of HIV for Lawyers and Advocates, Center for HIV Law and Policy (2011)

Letter to CDC Director of HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Jonathan Mermin, on the Necessity of CDC Statements on HIV Criminalization and Real Routes and Risks of Transmission, Center for HIV Law and Policy and HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (2011)

Criminalization of HIV Transmission: Poor Public Health Policy, Edwin Cameron, HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review (2009)

Opinion and Recommendations Regarding the Potential for Treatment as an Innovative Tool for Fighting the HIV Epidemic, Counseil National du Sida (2009)

Combined Antiretroviral Treatment and Heterosexual Transmission of HIV-1: Cross Sectional and Prospective Cohort Study, Jorge Del Romero et al., British Medical Journal (2010)

Living With HIV, Global Network of People Living With HIV (GNP+) (2010)

State Statutes Dealing With HIV and AIDS: A Comprehensive State-by-State Summary (2004 Edition), Staff of Volume 13, Law & Sexuality (2004)

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and the Promise of Combination Prevention Approaches, Susan P. Buchbinder and Albert Liu, AIDS BEHAV (2011)

The use of phylogenetic analysis as evidence in criminal investigation of HIV transmission, Edwin J Bernard and Yusef Azad et al., HIV Forensics (2007)