Criminal law, public health and HIV transmission : a policy options paper

A number of cases have been reported in which people living with HIV have been criminally charged for a variety of acts that transmit HIV or risk transmission. To assist in the development of sound public policy, this paper proposes principles to guide thinking about, and development of, law and policy on this issue; identifies a number of policy considerations; considers alternatives to criminalisation presented by public health laws; and discusses how the criminal law might be justifiably applied