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1170:: This work includes a foreword by Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President, Academic Health Affairs, Emory University, Atlanta, Formerly Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This groundbreaking new book blows apart the myths about who is at risk of getting AIDS and shows how these myths are driven by moral and political pressures. It provides an objective, logical, clear, epidemiologically based analysis on the current situation and situates itself firmly at marked variance with the politically correct position of UNAIDS and most AIDS activists. "The AIDS Pandemic" argues that the story of HIV has been distorted by UNAIDS and AIDS activists in order to support the myth of the high potential risk of HIV epidemics spreading into the general population. In the past, most policy makers and members of the public have uncritically accepted UNAIDS' high prevalence estimates and projections when in fact lower HIV prevalence estimates are more accurate. Time, money and resources are being wasted worldwide. 158: 979:

altă persoană decât cea prevăzută în alin. (1) se pedepseste cu închisoarea de la 5 la 12 ani. (3) Dacă prin faptele prevăzute în alin. (1) si alin. (2) s-a produs moartea victimei, pedeapsa este închisoarea de la 7 la 15 ani. (4) Când fapta prevăzută în alin. (2) a fost săvârsită din culpă, pedeapsa este închisoarea de la 6 luni la 3 ani, iar dacă a cauzat moartea victimei, pedeapsa este închisoarea de la 2 la 7 ani. (5) Tentativa la infractiunile prevăzute în alin. (1) si alin. (2) se pedepseste.

142: 555: 534: 565: 702: 641: 214: 1363:, who became "a darling of Poland’s liberal press" due to his political campaigns, so ome of his victims were reportedly intimidated and threatened when reporting him to police and Polish police delayed his arrest for long because of his political connections, thus allowing him to infect new victims. Finally, against these political pressures, that is despite the concerns voiced by 266: 245: 1138:, I suppose this post addresses me. please ping an editor if you dont get a reply from them.(see above) I'm glad you seem to have seen my issue with the article. Thanks for adding Poland in a succinct form and your other contribs until Sept 2014. more work would be good. the definition in the lead is good, but unsourced, the major issue I criticized half a year ago.-- 444: 423: 359: 338: 454: 898: 1714:"The limits of UNHCR's lobbying capabilities on issues that have high domestic profile are evident in the following episode. The introduction of HIV testing of asylum seekers came on the heels of much-publicized trial of a Cameroonian refugee and renowned human rights activist accused of knowingly infecting dozens of Polish women with HIV. 1344:

because of the high sex partner exchange rate within a large open network, while outside sub-Saharan Africa such heterosexual epidemics do not occur, because while sexually active persons have many different sex partners over a lifetime, only one at a time for months or years. According to Chin, his

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When multiple sex partners are concurrent, however, HIV and any other sexually transmitted infection can spread rapidly and extensively through a sexual network. It is on the basis of this thesis that Chin has accurately predicted the failure of heterosexual epidemics to occur outside of sub-Saharan

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Good. We are getting somewhere. Let us show the opposing sides in the article, to arrive at NPOV, hopefully. I have heavily reedited the PC section, trimming down on the quotes and adding this gentleman's work as a source. Please carefully review the claims against the sources, challenge them or the

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visitors to the country - tourists, business travellers, diplomats even - should be forced to have HIV tests before being allowed in? Would it be "political correctness" to oppose that? There is always legitimate debate about how far human freedoms and rights can reasonably be curtailed for reasons

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Please explain why "Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposure to HIV, which does not require the transmission of the virus and often, as in

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Art. 354. - (1) Transmiterea, prin orice mijloace, a sindromului imunodeficitar dobândit - SIDA - de către o persoană care stie că suferă de această boală se pedepseste cu închisoarea de la 3 la 10 ani. (2) Transmiterea, prin orice mijloace, a sindromului imunodeficitar dobândit - SIDA - de către o

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probably cant imagine? I still think the article is far from decent. the article has had a clear underlying bent towards decriminalization, peppered with advocacy sources for UK and US. the refs "for teh other side" so to speak were either non-existent or mere raw law links to law. It is still not

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Reports also suggest that AIDS has become the leading cause of death among African-Americans aged 25 to 44 in the US In Canada, the proportion of reported AIDS cases has steadily increased among ethnic groups. This trend was found to be particularly significant after 1994 among the Aboriginal

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states "UNAIDS wishes to correct multiple mischaracterizations that appear in a book published by Radcliffe Publishing, entitled The AIDS Pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness by James Chin. These errors deal with the process and results of the estimations of the AIDS

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Art. 354. - (1) Transmission of aids, through any means, from a person that knows has it is punishable by prison 3-10y. (2) Transmission of aids, through any means, by another person than the ones at par 1 is punishable by prison 5-12y. (3) If crimes at par 1 and 2 result in death of victim,

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Studies have found that the presence of stigma and racial stereotypes surrounding HIV often leads individuals who have been diagnosed with HIV to ignore this knowledge and continue their previous lifestyles which may lead to faster progression of disease among themselves and their partners

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In practice, as long as most HIV- people expect disclosure but would react to it by running away screaming, many HIV+ people will not disclose, at least at first. Personally, I can see why, but it seems not everyone can and unfortunately some of them serve as judges or on juries.

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to justify the claim that "political correctness" is somehow impeding attempts to identify persons with HIV. Part of the problem is that "political correctness" is just a term people use to ridicule certain types of objections to their ideas. Let's say someone argued that

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The initial stages of HIV infection are asymptomatic for periods usually exceeding one year. A person who engages in sexual activity or donates blood during this time may therefore have no reasonable basis upon which to suspect that he or she is transmitting a virus.

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Some Finns, including leading politicians, voiced concerns about privacy rights and said publishing the picture risked labelling a whole group of foreigners or black people as suspicious. Finland has a very low rate of HIV infection and a relatively very small black

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fleshed out. And the discussion here is , well you can see, non existing. I am not against this article spent hours on basic clean up today, to prove that I am not against decriminalization, not even adding material! Thanks for your 2 contributions in March 2014.--

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I think that removal of the section was entirely warranted following the discussion at the RS noticeboard. Essentially this is WP:SYN. Two isolated cases are made into an "issue" which is not supported by the sources given. Rather sources were clearly being

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of public safety (as the story of Typhoid Mary, who I mentioned before, indicates. She was eventually forcibly detained, which she considered to be an outrage). Having said that, there are clearly cases in which the PC buzz-term is used, as in the recent

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Poles should be compulsorily tested for HIV. Would objections to that be "political correctness"? After all it's a sure-fire way of identifying the carriers of the virus, so objectors could be 'endangering to public health'. What if someone proposed that

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English: Police was hesitating for long if to arrest Simon M because of his position and connections. Polish: Policja wahała się dość długo, czy zatrzymać Simona M. Uznano. że ma taką pozycję i znajomości, że nie można sobie pozwolić na najmniejszy

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It's not correct to say that disclosure of status is required in all states. AFAIK only NSW has a specific requirement to disclose. Victoria certainly does not, and most legal opinion there is that disclosure is not required by law.

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Another example is the first case of criminal HIV infection in Finland, when a photo of of Steven Thomas a Black US citizen from New York, was published in newspapers, many Finnish politicians were worried about

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When stigma exists people often prefer to ignore their real or possible HIV status. This can lead to the risk of faster disease progression for themselves and also to the risk of them spreading HIV to others

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has become the leading cause of death in some countries, and for whom the proportion of AIDS cases has been steadily increasing This pattern is repeated in many countries, as evidenced by WHO studies.

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HIV/AIDS epidemiological data is generally reported by countries and by risk groups and not by ethnicity / race due to the political sensitivity involved in doing so (PAHO/WHO & UNAIDS, 2001).

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punishment is prison 7-15y. (4) If crime at par 2 is committed without intent, punishment is 6mo-3y, if victim dies, punishment is 2-7y. (5) Attempt to commit crimes at par 1 and 2 is punishable.

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is a contributing factor in not being able to contain the AIDS epidemic as data is not aggregated by ethnicity or race due to the political sensitivity, to avoid stigmatization of such groups.

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The biggest problem I see is that almost none of that has to do with the article topic. It only has a single paragraph that mentions "Criminal transmission of HIV". Why should we include this?

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Criminal transmission cases used to be unusual but over the last year or two they've become commonplace - there seems to be a new one in the news almost every week (for some examples, see

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many societies were reluctant to discuss matters of sex, let alone enact legislation to control sexual activity; and unlike HIV (and subsequent AIDS), these other STDs are not fatal."

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infection - the courts have decided that being aware of their infection (or possibility of infection, in one case) they took an unreasonable risk. (See the page on recklessness.)

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the verbatim cut and past job from the Criminal transmission of HIV (United States) wikisite is uncalled for, though...The link to the main article is enough, in my opinion.--

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The article reads like an advocacy stint, or a newspaper article at best. I came here to look for a definition of criminal transmission of HIV, but found none, neither in

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if this law applies in the UK how is it that Dica 2005 was not charged with these offences but a s20 offence? i believe he should have been charged with attempted murder

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sources, if needed. Please also add the opposing (UNAIDS etc.) claims. As I wrote before, please do not remove these RS sources themselves, as it is NPOV in my opinion.

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persons and among Black people. Within Europe, HIV infection rates among African people in France especially among the women, are reported to be increasing

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http://statystyka.policja.pl/st/kodeks-karny/przestepstwa-przeciwko/63436,Narazenie-na-chorobe-wywolana-wirusem-HIV-zakazna-lub-weneryczna-art-161.html

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models and predictions have been borne out by statistics, despite the previous warnings by such organizations as UNAIDS of world-wide spread of AIDS.

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A valid argument. I updated the laws against conscious HIV infection for Poland, and gave breakdown of cases Please do the same for other countries.

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https://web.archive.org/20110605061202/http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/C-46/bo-ga:l_VIII::bo-ga:l_IX/20090817/en?page=6&isPrinting=false

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Reportedly, he was so influential in some elite circles, that the witnesses who have testified against him are now being intimidated and threatened.

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Societies have legislated against all kinds of sexual activity long before the 21st century, even if sexuality generally was not openly discussed.

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Njie became a darling of Poland's liberal press for organising vocal campaigns against racism and supporting the cause of refugees in Poland.

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Instead, Chin argues, the resoures should be focused on persons with the highest HIV-risk behaviors, even if this means stigmatizing them.

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of persons with the highest levels of HIV-risk behaviors and that their estimates for spread of the disease worldwide were thus too high.

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pandemic, made with technical assistance from the UNAIDS Secretariat and WHO." and "The underlining theme of Dr Chin’s book is incorrect."

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https://web.archive.org/web/20150402115618/http://www.nat.org.uk/media/Files/Policy/2014/Sept_2014_criminalprosecutionsHIVtable.pdf

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http://web.archive.org/web/20120121095808/http://www.bookrags.com/highbeam/american-gets-14-year-term-in-finland-19970711-hb/

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Another epidemiological risk happens when authorities fail to take the necessary steps to apprehend HIV-infected people for

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The lack of a clear definition is not a neutrality issue. You don't say what you mean by 'advocacy stint'. Advocating what?

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https://web.archive.org/web/20051228140549/http://www.aidslaw.ca/Maincontent/otherdocs/Newsletter/vol10no22005/crimiHIV.htm

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resources that would be better focused on persons with the highest HIV-risk behaviors, even if this means stigmatizing them

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http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/C-46/bo-ga:l_VIII::bo-ga:l_IX/20090817/en?page=6&isPrinting=false#codese:231

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On another tack, you've mentioned nothing about criminal transmission of HIV - any source you use has to discuss this.

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I think it's down to the fact that this page was originally developed over a US law rather than an english and welsh.

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http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/C-46/bo-ga%3Al_VIII%3A%3Abo-ga%3Al_IX/20090817/en?page=6&isPrinting=false

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In what way does this article resemble an 'advocacy stint'? What viewpoint does the article appear to be advocating?

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12284-libya-commutes-medics-death-sentence-to-life-in-prison.html#.UvL__q_nYcA

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https://web.archive.org/web/20060311174026/http://www.aidsmap.com/en/docs/0507DD86-195A-4C28-9914-CF89AE147AA0.asp

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https://web.archive.org/20090520063421/http://www.keele.ac.uk:80/research/lpj/Law_HIV-AIDSProject/Pres_Papers.htm

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Some kind of link or reference to more information on legal status in the US would certainly be useful.

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A "glorious" myth and an exaggeration perpetuated by UNAIDS, AIDS program advocates, and activists

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the risk of spreading AIDS to the general population is a myth and an exaggeration perpetuated by

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