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In July 2010, the White House announced a major change in its HIV/AIDS policy; the "National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States" stated that "the continued existence and enforcement of these types of laws [that criminalize HIV infection] run counter to scientific evidence about routes of HIV transmission and may undermine the public health goals of promoting HIV screening and treatment."
Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposure to HIV, which does not require the transmission of the virus and often, as in the cases of spitting and biting, does not include a realistic means of transmission. [1]
The case marked the first time in forensic history that viral RNA was used to prove a link between two people with HIV or acquired immune deficiency syndrome in a criminal trial. [ 1 ] In 1994, Schmidt used a sample of blood taken from one of his HIV-positive patients to inject into his lover and former colleague, Janice Trahan, infecting her ...
A man who raped a vulnerable teenager in a "horrific sexually-motivated attack" has been jailed. Alan Douglas Clune, 45, was HIV positive when he sexually assaulted an 18-year-old man in a hotel ...
Johnson Aziga (born 1956) is a Ugandan-born Canadian man formerly residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, notable as the first person to be charged and convicted of first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV, after two women whom he had infected without their knowledge died.
Eleven people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. Most of those who lost their lives were elderly worshippers who had gathered on the Jewish Sabbath for a ...
The victim’s daughter sobbed from the witness stand as she recalled learning from a Fort Worth detective that her mother was dead. ‘Haunting’ crime-scene photos shown at capital murder trial ...
A pin prick attack is an assault on another person with a needle or syringe tainted with the blood of somebody carrying a blood-borne disease, such as HIV.Although there have been numerous cases of people being attacked with needles and syringes, the idea that people infected with AIDS have deliberately attempted to infect others in this manner is generally considered an urban legend: Real ...