WHO Technical Consultation: Criminalization of HIV and Other Sexually-Transmitted Diseases

In October 2006, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe convened the first in a series of technical consultations on the criminalization of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) transmission and exposure. The consultation brought together representatives of organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS, non-governmental technical experts from European Member States, WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). They identified urgent needs for further collaborative action, including a WHO or United Nations position statement, by sharing experiences from select European countries.