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HIV treatment not advanced enough to dismiss full disclosure, court told

Medical treatment for HIV has not advanced enough to preclude the duty for someone infected with the virus to not disclose their status to a sex partner, the Supreme Court of Canada heard Wednesday.

Published
09 February 2012
From
Ottawa Citizen
HIV and criminal law
Global Commission on HIV and the Law: Criminal Law as a Risk Factor for MSM

AIDS-Free World denounces, in no uncertain terms, the criminalization of LGBTQI identities and the criminalization of any same-sex behavior. Not only does this criminalization violate human rights law, it has and will continue to serve as a death sentence for individuals all over the world — allowing them to be targeted for brutal violence, and putting them at a heightened, and completely unnecessary, risk of HIV. 

Published
08 February 2012
From
AIDS Free World
HIV and criminal law
HIV Criminalization Face-Off: One Poz Man and His Accuser

What if you could witness a face-to-face confrontation between a man living with HIV and the sex partner accusing him of not revealing his status? Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on that wall?

Published
08 February 2012
From
My Fabulous Disease (video)
HIV and criminal law
Singapore: Two men with HIV jailed for non-disclosure to same man at different times

A 27 year-old former civil engineer and a 48 year-old married man who had casual sex at different times with a 37 year-old man (who subsequently tested HIV-positive) have each been sentenced to 18 months in prison because they did not disclose they were HIV-positive.

Published
07 February 2012
From
Criminal HIV Transmission
Telling people you have HIV
Chinese province may have new rule on HIV disclosure

HIV-positive men and women in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region may soon be required by law to tell partners their status the moment their test results are known. 

Published
07 February 2012
From
AsiaOne
HIV and criminal law
HIV: Criminal law not the right approach

The criminal law should be used only as a last resort in cases where provisions within existing public health laws have failed to discourage behaviour likely to lead to HIV transmission, argues the Vancouver Sun in an editorial ahead of a Canadian Supreme Court review of any requirement for disclosure of HIV status prior to sexual intercourse.

Published
07 February 2012
From
Vancouver Sun
HIV and criminal law
Do people with HIV have to tell their sex partners? Canadian Supreme Court to decide

Canada's highest court is set to hear arguments over whether it's a crime for people with HIV to keep their condition from their sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low. 

Published
05 February 2012
From
City News
HIV and criminal law
Getting tough on criminalisation

“Nothing short of barbaric.” This was the comment of a BBC presenter, confronted with the number and sheer arbitrary injustice of criminal convictions of people accused of transmitting

Published
03 February 2012
From
HIV treatment update
HIV and criminal law
Same-Sex Couples Saved From HIV Disclosure Laws

In Florida, if an HIV positive person knows that he is HIV positive and has been informed that HIV may be transmitted during sexual intercourse, and has sexual intercourse with any other person without disclosing his HIV status, it can be prosecuted. But courts are ruling that the statute cannot be applied to same-sex couples.

Published
01 February 2012
From
South Florida Gay News
HIV and criminal law
Man sues strip club, government after contracting HIV

A Toronto man who found out nearly eight years ago that his Thai stripper wife had infected him with HIV has no one to blame but himself, the Ontario Superior Court heard Tuesday.

Published
31 January 2012
From
The Province
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