‘Guilty until our status is proven innocent’: Update on Ohio’s outdated HIV criminalization laws

The Buckeye Flame ^ | March 3, 2025 | Ken Schneck

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With six Ohio decades-old laws still currently on the books that criminalize living with HIV, there is a new effort to give voice to the negative consequences ​and long-term impacts of the laws.

The Equality Ohio Education Fund and Ohio Health Modernization Movement (OHMM) released an update last week to their 2024 report, “The Enforcement of HIV Criminalization in Ohio,”which documents the use of Ohio’s HIV criminalization laws from 2014 to 2020 and the consequences of HIV criminalization across the state.

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Faggies want to pass on AIDS with no consequences.

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But there is a real problem with the existing laws — lack of quarantining.

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HIV is incurable. HIV is transmissible. Laws that criminalize infecting another person with HIV are completely appropriate.

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