December 1, 2011
Last August, an Alberta teen was arrested on charges of aggravated sexual assault after being accused of having unprotected sex without disclosing her HIV-positive status. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, it is a criminal offense to transmit or expose another person to HIV through unprotected sex or drug injecting equipment if one’s HIV-positive status had not ...
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World AIDS Day
November 11, 2011
David Kato was murdered in January this year in what was a controversial case. He was an active gay rights activist in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill is waiting to be decided on that will give the death penalty for being gay or for having HIV. Other activists claimed ...
Tags: criminalization of HIV,
David Kato,
death penalty,
Enoch Nsubuga,
gay rights,
hate crime,
homophobia,
jail,
male rape victim,
murder,
sexual assault,
Uganda
January 21, 2011
Sargent David Gutierrez had HIV and also liked sex. The problem arose when he went to swinger parties and assured his sexual partners that he was HIV free and didn’t use condoms. He has been charged with seven counts of “aggravated assault and violating his commander’s order to notify partners about his HIV status and ...