Supreme Court redefines duty to disclose HIV

In this day and age, when the worst of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) crisis is happily behind us, and when an AIDS diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, is it fair to expect people with the disease to tell their sex partners that they’re infected?

Yes, if there’s any “realistic possibility” of passing on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the Supreme Court has just ruled in an important and welcome decision. It rightly reaffirms a principle the court first set out in 1998. It will remain a grave criminal offence for people with HIV not to reveal their status to partners who stand a realistic chance of becoming infected.

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