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Some countries have used the criminal law to prosecute people living with HIV who have – or are believed to have – put others at risk of acquiring HIV. Some countries’ laws criminalise people who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners as well as actual cases of HIV transmission.   

When HIV is criminalized: Rosemary Namubiru, nurse living with HIV

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International AIDS Society
8 December 2017

Daryll Rowe guilty of infecting men with HIV

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BBC News
15 November 2017