So, here we go again...

[lpetersson]

Asylum seeker gave a bunch of women AIDS
Apologies for linking to The Daily Mail...

I seem to recall that earlier this year or maybe late last year there was a lot of robust and frank exchanges of opinion (Especially on kirsten2's LJ I think?) about a woman who had given one or more men AIDS on purpose.
I can't help but wonder if the same people who defended that womans right to do so would also defend this chaps right to spread this disease...

Oh well...

Comments

[kirstenlj.livejournal.com]

No-one defended her right to knowingly infect anyone else with HIV afair.

I said at the time:
1. I don't believe criminal prosecution/custodial sentences are always the right way to deal with people who are diagnosed with HIV and then transmit it.
2. If you don't take all precautions to protect yourself, I don't think you should have any legal recourse if your gamble doesn't work out for you. That isn't to say that having unprotected sex when you know you have HIV isn't wrong. Just that people who take the risk need to be willing to accept either outcome. If people, they mustn't take the risk and then expect everyone else to pick up the pieces.
3. More should be done to counsel and monitor people who are newly diagnosed.