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Current Illinois law makes legal behavior — like consensual sex — illegal, and adds harsh penalties for ordinarily minor crimes such as sharing injection-drug equipment. Not a single study throughout the country shows HIV criminalization has reduced HIV transmission in any jurisdiction where it exists.

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We have also seen through the decades how HIV criminalization laws disproportionately impact women and the Black community. HIV criminalization laws are often justified as somehow protecting women; in reality, they are too commonly used by abusive partners to control and coerce women and trans folks living with HIV. You can read the language for Senate Bill here.

The Criminalization Of Hiv Transmission

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