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This tremendous breakthrough is the science supporting the Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) reality.” It no longer reflects the current science of treatment and transmission of HIV. In 2021, a person living with HIV today can take medication to reduce their viral load that corresponds to the amount of virus present in their body, which means they will not transmit HIV to another individual. We are thrilled to partner with pro-equality champions, Senator Vitale and Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle, on modernizing this outdated and harmful law,” said Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director, Garden State Equality.Īxel Torress Marrero, Senior Director of Public Policy and Prevention, Hyacinth AIDS Foundation said, “New Jersey’s HIV criminalization statute is based on stigma and fear, rather than modern science. “The current law disproportionately impacts communities who are more likely to be living with the virus, including LGBTQ+ people, Black and Latinx people, transgender women, and sex workers. This legislation ensures that New Jersey moves forward guided by public health, not bigotry,” said Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen). “I am honored to be working alongside Garden State Equality, Hyacinth and the Harm Reduction Coalition to put forth this historic legislation.” “For far too long, stigma around HIV/AIDS and the LGBTQ community has guided our laws. A disorderly persons offense is punishable by six months in prison, a fine of up to $1,000, or both. The legislation ( A-5673) seeks to amend existing law to downgrade this penalty to a disorderly persons offense, and also have it only apply to people who act with specific intent to transmit an infectious or communicable disease like HIV, do not attempt to prevent transmission, and pass the disease to another person. A third-degree crime is punishable by three to five years in prison, a fine of up to $15,000, or both. Under current New Jersey law, it is a crime of the third degree if a person knows that he or she is infected with AIDS or HIV and commits an act of sexual penetration without the informed consent of their partner. (TRENTON) – Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle has introduced legislation to decriminalize the transmission of HIV under certain circumstances. Some state laws criminalized biting or spitting by an HIV-positive person, though saliva was not a probable transmission risk.Vainieri Huttle Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Transmission of HIV

People feared they could catch the bug just by touching somebody, and there were no effective medical treatments. To understand how the laws came to be in the first place - how a public health crisis became a matter for cops and prisons - it helps to recall the fear, even hysteria, that swept the country in the early 1980s as Americans became aware of a mysterious and deadly new disease, AIDS. Illinois then will have joined five other states since 2014 - California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and North Carolina - that have put an end to the criminalization of HIV transmission and it will be setting a fine example for 33 other states that still have such laws. House Bill 1063 sailed through the House in April, with bipartisan support, and looks certain to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by Gov. The Illinois Legislature, in a historic and symbolically powerful gesture, is likely as early as this week to abolish the criminalization of HIV transmission.