Introduction
Under Canadian criminal law, currently, it is illegal for people with HIV/AIDS to engage in sex without disclosing their HIV-positive status to their sexual partners. Known as the "criminalization of HIV non-disclosure", the legal obligation to disclose the HIV-positive status was first established in the 1990s with the case of R. vs Cuerrier in which the Supreme Court ruled that people with HIV/AIDS have a legal obligation to reveal their HIV-positive status to partners before forming any physical intimacy that poses a "significant risk of serious bodily harm" to the sexual partners (Mykhalovskiy and Betteridge, 2012). The defendant Cuerrier Continue reading...