Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19.

PUBLIC health laws; COVID-19 pandemic; HIV; BLACK people; CONTACT tracing; INDIGENOUS peoples; STAY-at-home orders; CRIMINAL law

An editorial is presented in which the authors discuss their concerns with what they identify as punitive enforcement of public health measures such as contact tracing and stay-at-home orders in some jurisdictions that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic that may be an affront to human rights protections and standards that resemble the response of criminal law to HIV. The authors discuss how such practices negatively impact Black and Indigenous people and the concept of carceral public health.