Find the Laws in Your State
Select your state for information on HIV criminalization laws and policies that have been used to prosecute people living with HIV based on research for CHLP's Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice.
Please note we are in the process of updating these online maps to reflect the updates in Mapping HIV Criminalization Laws in the U.S., CHLP (2025). Please refer to that document for the most up-to-date information.
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HIV-Specific Criminal Laws
- Sex (19)
- Spitting/Biting/Blood Exposure (13)
- Needle-sharing (12)
- Blood, Tissue, Organ, and Semen Donation (16)
- Sex Work/Solicitation (10)
- HIV-specific Sentence Enhancement (8)
- General STI/Communicable Disease Laws that Include HIV (2)
- General STI/Communicable Disease Laws (24)
- Sex Offender Registration (6)
- General Felony Laws Used Against PLWH (26)
- HIV-Specific Felony Laws (0)
- HIV-Specific Misdemeanor Laws (4)
- STI/Communicable Disease Misdemeanor Laws (1)
- STI/Communicable Disease Felony Laws (1)
- Hepatitis (0)