The Shared Responsibility of HIV Disclosure

There is a common assumption among the sexually active homo population that it is the responsibility of HIV-positive men to disclose their status before engaging in bedroom gymnastics. Based on this assumption, a person who doesn’t mention his status before he tries and fails to make a baby with another man silently asserts that he is HIV-negative by default. Even if a person living with HIV had an undetectable viral load and used protection, he would be considered a reprehensible, immoral and altogether villainous character if he failed to disclose his scarlet plus sign to his unknowing, HIV-negative partner. But when it comes to the laws of responsibility in HIV disclosure, sometimes there is more than one suspect in a crime.

Tyler Curry
Freelance columnist and fiction writer;
creator, The Needle Prick Project
Huffingtonpost
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