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Implementation of the Report

United Kingdom: House of Lords debates held on the impact of discriminatory laws on HIV responses in developing countries & the Commonwealth (December 2012 & March 2013), following the UK Launch of the Commission Report

March 13, 2013
On 6 December 2012, UNDP in partnership with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the United Kingdom All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS launched the Report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, 'HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health', at the…
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Reps. Lee and Ros-Lehtinen Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Modernize Discriminatory HIV/AIDS Laws

May 07, 2013
May 7, 2013Contacts: Carrie Adams (Lee) – (202) 225-2661; Alex Cruz (Ros-Lehtinen) – (202) 225-3931 Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee ( D-Calif.) was joined byCongresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) to introduce H.R. 1843, the Repeal Existing…

TEDTalk by Shereen El-Feki, vice-chair of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law

May 2012 - There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El-Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws, based in stigma, are actually helping the disease spread.

Watch Shereen's TED Talk 'HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws' below, or on www.ted.com.