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Hello, on behalf of my own and every person prosecuted thanks for your great job done!!!.My colleage Joan Bertran, as a representative of REDVIH (Spain), met Edwin Bernard during last year meeting (Oakland CA USA - Global Comission on HIV and the Law).I collaborate in Human Rights area of www.redvih.org.es as an activist. We will follow all your activities,extremely neccesary. If there is anything, we can do, do not hesitate to contact us, please. We at REDVIH, promote and signed with many spanish HIV civil organizations a document (2010)about such important issue. Warm regards, Héctor Fortuny/Tenerife/Spain
Sean, Thank you for your leadership and continued fight for the community.
Karen Bateman
Thank you for your efforts to educate and inform. Having been intentionally infected by a person who not only concealed, but lied about his status, I am alarmed by folks who see this as an all or nothing issue. It is good to see we are not calling to end ALL prosecutions, but to ensure they, quote...should be based on principles of proportionality, foreseeability, intent, causality and non-discrimination; informed by the most-up-to-date HIV-related science and medical information, harm-based, rather than risk-of-harm based, and be consistent with both public health goals and international human rights obligations...end quote. I hope you will continue to highlight the need for HIV POZ people to be responsible and accountable to inform and seek the informed consent to their partners. It is the kind, compassionate, and human thing to do.
March 11, 2013