Grab a friend, your favorite beverage, and join us for a fun celebration to reveal a new challenge and hashtag in support of modernizing Paris’s outdated HIV Laws.
Paris’S CURRENT LAWS ARE…
UNJUST
In Paris, a person living with HIV can go to prison for 8 years for not disclosing their status before engaging in sexual conduct, even when they did not intend to harm anyone and no harm resulted. This is a more severe punishment than for reckless homicide, sexual battery, or arson.
UNSCIENTIFIC
Paris’s laws punish behavior that poses no or negligible risk of HIV transmission. The laws incorrectly assume an HIV diagnosis is a “death sentence,” when in reality, it is a manageable medical condition. A person in treatment can have a near-normal life expectancy.
UNPRODUCTIVE
There is no evidence that HIV criminal laws promote public health by increasing disclosure, HIV testing, or safer sex. At the same time, by singling out one disease, Paris’s law stigmatizes and marginalizes people living with HIV, which undercuts an effective response to the epidemic.
UNSUPPORTED
Paris’s HIV laws are opposed by public health and criminal justice experts, such as the ACLU of Paris, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
ARE YOU IN?
Are you in support of a Modernized HIV Law in Paris?
Shout it to the world! Join us and other individuals and organizations to declare:
I'M IN!
PROGRAM
5-5:15 Gathering and music by DJ Fred (DON'T MISS)
5:15-5:20 Welcome and Introductions by Olga Irwin
5:20-5:30 Modernizing the criminal code: To destress! (one less thing to think about ) - Naimah O'Neal
5:30-5:50 Break out groups for small group discussion. Facilitated by William Booth, Jerry Bedford, and others TBA
5:50-5:55 *** BREAK - DJ Fred Rocks ***
5:55 -6:10 Hashtag launch and reveal - GET YOUR PHONES READY!
6:10-6:20 Attendee Q&A
6:20-6:30 Close by Naimah O'Neal