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发帖数: 29846 | 1 A new campaign seeks to eliminate disclosure laws which require HIV positive
individuals to inform their sex partners of their potentially deadly
infection.
The campaign is led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF
) and UNAIDS, an umbrella group of UN agencies. Notably absent from this
campaign is any recognition of the danger posed for the possible victims of
a willful refusal to disclose HIV status.
As part of the campaign, IPPF released a collection of interviews entitled
“Behind Bars”, which implies that such criminal laws fuel stigma against
HIV persons. Proponents of criminal laws assert they are designed to help
protect and prevent sexual partners from contracting a potentially deadly
virus.
Some of the testimony of the interviewees in “Behind Bars” directly
contradicts the assertions made by IPPF. An Egyptian doctor states that
irresponsible behavior which results in a car accident deserves punishment
just like the failure to disclose one’s HIV status before engaging in
sexual activity deserves punishment: “In the same way, if someone who knows
that he is HIV positive is careless and just allows my son or my daughter
to become HIV infected I would feel the same.”
“Behind Bars” is part of a larger IPPF campaign, “Criminalize Hate Not
HIV”, launched at the International Aids Conference in Vienna in July. IPPF
describes laws that make willful transmission of HIV to another person as
too-costly, hindrances to prevention, and stigmatizing. The video promo [
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT] for the campaign depicts various sexual scenes.
The video appears to promote homosexual sex, drug use, and prostitution,
which are listed by the Center for Disease Control as three of the most high
risk behaviors responsible for the transmission of HIV.
“This clearly shows that IPPF believes that illicit sex is more important
that life itself – and they are willing to risk other people’s lives to
advance their sexual agenda,” said Wendy Wright, President of Concerned
Women for America.
UNAIDS and the World Health Organization sponsored this year’s
International Aids Conference. IPPF and UNAIDS collaborated in sponsoring
the “Stigma Index”, whose website contains a major section calling for the
decriminalization of HIV transmission.
IPPF contends, “The drive for criminalization of willful transmission of
HIV is proving a costly intervention – in terms of time and money spent on
investigating individual’s private lives and determining the burden of
proof – and seems to have had limited impact on HIV prevention.”
However, Wendy Wright told the Friday Fax that the costs of enforcing the
laws are dwarfed in comparison to the costs associated with HIV/AIDS.
In March, IPPF made available their sex guide [EXPLICIT], “Healthy, Happy,
and Hot” at a UN event sponsored by the Girl Scouts. The brochure states,
“Some countries have laws that violate the right of young people living
with HIV to decide whether to disclose…These laws violate the rights of
people living with HIV by forcing them to disclose or face the possibility
of criminal charges.” |
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