Risky Business: Molecular Surveillance in the age of HIV criminalization

Although most people commonly believe that the medical data collected by their doctors is 100% private, that could not be further from the truth. All kinds of caveats and exceptions to medical privacy exist, including when data is requested by members of law enforcement. And in over two-thirds of the United States, people living with HIV can and are subjected to prosecution. It is against that backdrop that the CDC engages in molecular surveillance, the collection of certain data about EVERY person who has a positive HIV test, without their knowledge or consent. Attendees of this webinar should leave with: a better understanding of what HIV criminalization is; baseline knowledge about the history and process of molecular surveillance;...