Quick Reference Guide 2010

The worldwide use of our data for entry and residence regulations makes it vital for us to update this overview regularly, in order to be able to provide PLHIV with access to the most current information at all times. This new issue is based on the results of a new worldwide survey of the foreign representatives of 200 countries, made between November 2007 and June 2008 with the support of the German foreign ministry. All changes that have occurred since then are integrated in this update. This new edition of the Quick Reference guide contains all the changes we have become aware of up to the beginning of 2010. It is published by us in cooperation with other European NGOs, currently in

• German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Croatian, Slovakian, Portuguese

All data presented here are publicly available at the website www.hivrestrictions.org, created in cooperation between us, the International AIDS Society (IAS), the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) and the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+).

On the website www.hivtravel.org we continually integrate the latest information about travel and migration and add any changes as we learn of them. Experience has shown that information often has a short “shelf-life” and such regulations can change quickly – in both positive and negative ways.

Since October 2009 our webpage has been connected with the GNP+ database on the criminalization of HIV transmission (http://criminalisation.gnpplus.net). We welcome this integration, because both subjects clearly demonstrate the global scale of ignorance and discrimination still faced by people living with HIV today.