HMM Resources and News

Media Tracking Indiana Reform Efforts

• 2023 WRTV: Hoosiers advocate for Causes on Organization Day
• 2023 Indy Star: Indiana has harsher legal penalties for those living with HIV
• 2023 The Body.com: Reform of HIV Criminalization Laws Gaining Traction in Indiana but Not Yet There
• 2023 WFYI Damien Center puts support behind efforts to update ‘old’ laws
• 2023 WTHR House bill would change laws that address alleged crimes committed by HIV-positive Hoosiers
• 2023 WNDU Indiana bill would update laws for crimes committed by HIV-positive people
• 2023 WFYI Legislation to modernize Indiana’s HIV laws clears House committee
• 2023 WRTV House Bill 1198 would get rid of criminal enhancements for people living with HIV
• 2023 Journal Gazette It’s past time to destigmatize HIV in Indiana
• 2023 Indy Star Indiana legislation would remove harsher penalty for those with HIV
• 2023 WRTV Indiana bill would change sentence enhancements,criminal offenses related to HIV
• 2023 WTHR: Bill would change battery with HIV laws
• 2023 IN Capital Chronical Lawmaker proposes removing stigmatizing HIV language from criminal code
• 2022 AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on IU’s campus: Interview Advocate HMM
• 2022 Wish TV: Indiana panel recommends repealing HIV penalties
• 2022: Campus Citizen: IUPUI Sociology Professor’s Path to Ending HIV Stigma in Indiana Law
• 2022 The Journal Gazette: Science has advanced the lives of HIV-positive people, but our laws are in the dark ages
• 2022 Indiana Capital Chronical HIV laws, funding for mental health in Indiana justice system weighed by lawmakers
• 2022 Fox 59 Advocates push to change ‘outdated’ laws impacting Hoosiers with HIV
• 2022 WFYI Advocates say reforming HIV laws will help destigmatize disease, improve public health
• 2022 Indiana Capital Chronicle Lawmakers recommend lessening HIV criminal penalties
• 2022 The Journal Gazette: Study committee to review Indiana’s HIV laws
• 2021 ACLU Shifting the Rhetoric Around Hoosiers Living with HIV
• 2020 THFGI Indiana Harm Reduction Video – Law Makers
• 2020 HIV Modernization Movement (HMM) Damien Center Monthly Livestream                                        
• 2017 DVN Newsletter HIV Laws and Domestic Violence – Indiana
• 2016 POZ Magazine New Group Tackles HIV Crime Laws
• 2016 Working to Modernize HIV Laws
• 2016 IN Law Review Criminalization Of HIV: Spread Of The Viral Underclass

Best Practices Guides for Reform

• Guiding Principles for Eliminating Disease-Specific Criminal Laws, 2015
• Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors, 2014

Research Articles and Policy Statements

• 2016 Indiana HIV Criminal Law Provider Survey Results
• Expert Consensus Statement on the Science of HIV in the Context of Criminal Law
• The public health implications of HIV criminalization: past, current, and future research directions. Critical Public Health, 2015
• Selected Policy Statements and Support for Decriminalization in the United States, Center for HIV Law and Policy, 2015
• Prevalence and Public Health Implications of State Laws: Laws that Criminalize Potential HIV Exposure in the United States – AIDS and Behavior, 2014
• HIV Criminal Prosecutions and Public Health: An Examination of the Empirical Research, Medical Humanities, 2013
• Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure, Exposure, and Transmission: Working Annotated Bibliography, CIRA, Yale University, 2012