Cases

HIV criminalisation cases

The latest cases curated for the HIV Justice Network from global news reports.

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Canada: Man sentenced to 9 months in jail for spitting on paramedic

Latest update 1 July 2025
Ontario Canada Spitting

[Update] Canada: 31-year-old man sentenced to 43 months in prison for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 26 February 2025
Quebec Alleged sexual transmission Migrants

[Update]Canada: Man convicted in 2009 for alleged HIV transmission refused parole a second time

Latest update 24 December 2024
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Gay men Migrants

[Update]Canada: 60-year-old Montreal man sentenced to 7 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 27 February 2024
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update] Canada: Quebec Court of appeal upholds 30 months sentence for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 2 December 2023
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Canada: 35-year-old Ontario man wanted by police for alleged HIV-exposure

Latest update 17 October 2023
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Appeals court overturns man’s initial conviction, citing his viral load suppression

Latest update 20 October 2022
Ontario Canada Risk Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update] Canada: Woman sentenced for HIV ‘exposure’, despite undetectable viral load, wins her case in Court of Appeal

Latest update 31 August 2022

       

Ontario Canada Risk Expert witnesses Media/Public Opinion Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Canada: BC Appeal Court upholds decision against man sentenced to 4-years in prison for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 16 November 2021
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Trial of 31-year-old trans* sex worker charged with alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure collapses

Latest update 13 November 2021
Alberta Canada Alleged sexual transmission Sex workers Trans* people

[Update]Canada: Man found guilty of aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV non-disclosure sentenced to 7 months and a half in Nova Scotia

Latest update 8 June 2021
Nova Scotia Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: 64-year-old man charged with life-threatening sexual assault for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 17 May 2021
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Canada: 24-year-old man sentenced to 6 months community service for spitting on healthcare worker

Latest update 20 April 2021
Saskatchewan Canada Spitting Youth

[Update]Canada: Ontario Court of Appeal upholds conviction of man accused of alleged HIV exposure despite using condoms

Latest update 7 August 2020
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Winnipeg man sentenced to 4 years in prison for HIV non-disclosure and transmission

Latest update 4 February 2020
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update] Canada: Man, whose charges for HIV non-disclosure were dropped due to his undetectable viral load, files lawsuit for defamation and negligence

Latest update 25 August 2019

     

British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Civil cases (non criminal)

[Update]Canada: Ontario Court of Appeal upholds dangerous offender label for man who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault in 2012

Latest update 19 August 2019
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Ontario’s Court of Appeal quashed attempted murder convictions and ordered retrial of man convicted in 2012 for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 12 August 2019
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Man living with HIV charged with failure to comply with court order to seek treatment

Latest update 7 June 2019
British Columbia Canada Other

[Update]Canada: New Federal guidelines leads Northwest Territories to drop sexual assault charge for alleged HIV non-disclosure against Nunavut man

Latest update 12 February 2019
Northwest Territories Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: 60-year-old sentenced to seven years in prison for unprotected sex and alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 21 December 2018

   

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Canada: Quebec man sentenced to three and a half year in jail for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 20 December 2018
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Male sex worker charged with aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV non disclosure

Latest update 29 November 2018
Canada Alleged sexual transmission

Canada: Man charged under British Columbia’s Public Health Act for allegedly refusing to comply with orders for HIV treatment

Latest update 25 August 2018

       

British Columbia Canada Other

Canada: Gay man living with HIV sentenced in Quebec to 43 months in prison following conviction for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 5 July 2018
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Man living with HIV charged with aggravated sexual assault in Winnipeg for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 8 June 2018
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Calgary man sentenced to 7½ years for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 28 April 2018
Alberta Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Nova Scotia Appeal Court overturns convictions of man living with HIV, stating that consent is not diminished by HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 15 February 2018

   

Nova Scotia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: 34 year-old man charged with aggravated sexual assault in Ontario for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 25 September 2017

     

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure

[Update] Canada: 34-year-old man accused of aggravated assault in Québec granted bail; Court asks for viral load confirmation as one of the conditions

Latest update 24 August 2017
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Charges of aggravated sexual assault dismissed after Ontario Judge takes undetectable viral load into consideration in HIV non-disclosure case

Latest update 7 August 2017
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Woman convicted and sentenced to jail in 2016 for alleged HIV non-disclosure appeals to Supreme Court

Latest update 30 July 2017
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual transmission Women

[Update]Canada: 27 year old Toronto man faces 8 new charges of aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 21 July 2017
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Gay men

[Update] Jamaica: Jamaican man extradited back to Canada to face charges of HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 23 June 2017
Canada Jamaica Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Man sentenced to 4 years in prison in Quebec for HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 29 April 2017
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Man living with HIV in Quebec faces charges of sexual assault for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 25 April 2017
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Day parole granted to man sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2008 for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 25 April 2017
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Man accused of alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure in Quebec sentenced to 7 years in jail

Latest update 15 March 2017

     

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Quebec man living with HIV charged with aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 29 January 2017
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: 20 years old man jailed for 2 years in Ontario for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 5 November 2016
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Youth

Canada: Ontario’s Court of Appeal grants new trial to man convicted in 2013, over juror’s biased conduct

Latest update 1 November 2016

   

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Ontario woman living with HIV given suspended sentence with 18 months probation for spitting

Latest update 29 October 2016
Ontario Canada Spitting Women

Canada: Day release granted on appeal to HIV positive man sentenced to six years in prison

Latest update 20 September 2016

   

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: 20-year-old man charged with 4 counts of aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 18 August 2016
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Youth

Canada: Toronto man arrested for alleged HIV non-disclosure faces charges of aggravated sexual assault

Latest update 12 August 2016

   

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Court upholds sexual assault conviction of Calgary man for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 July 2016
Alberta Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Montreal police arrests and charges HIV positive man with aggravated sexual assault for alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure

Latest update 31 May 2016

       

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Canada: Ontario man sentenced to 18 months for biting police officers and causing "psychological trauma", despite being HIV negative

Latest update 27 May 2016
Ontario Canada Biting

Canada: Winnipeg man in denial about his HIV diagnosis awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault

Latest update 3 December 2015
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Gay men

[Update]US: New Jersey man convicted of HIV non-disclosure appeals ‘open ended’ reimbursement of medical and psychological expenses for the two female complainants

Latest update 21 August 2015
New Jersey Canada United States Harm Heterosexual men Civil cases (non criminal)

Canada: Gay Winnipeg man pleads guilty to aggravated sexual assault for HIV non-disclosure before condomless sex ‘with high viral load’, complainant has since tested HIV-positive

Latest update 17 June 2015
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Gay men

Canada: Montreal man, 61, accused of HIV non-disclosure by two women, one of whom is now HIV-positive

Latest update 22 May 2015
Quebec Canada Police Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Toronto police issue ‘public alert’ after man with HIV, tried in 2010 for alleged HIV non-disclosure and accused again in 2013, is arrested for breaching bail conditions

Latest update 10 May 2015
Ontario Canada Media/Public Opinion Police Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Peterborough, Ontario police issue ‘public safety message’ after charging 18 year-old male with HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 8 April 2015
Ontario Canada Police Alleged sexual exposure Youth

Canada: Winnipeg man receives close to maximum prison sentence for attempted aggravated assault for spitting; saliva on a cop following Superior court appeal

Latest update 16 December 2014
Manitoba Canada Risk Judges Appeal court decisions Police Spitting

[Update]Ottawa gay activist found not guilty in HIV-assault case

Latest update 4 June 2014
Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: B.C. Supreme Court jury convicts Zimbabwean migrant of aggravated sexual assault for HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 7 February 2014
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Felix and Mekonnen HIV non-disclosure convictions overturned by Ontario Court of Appeals

Latest update 21 June 2013
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Toronto police characterise HIV risk after gay one-night stand as "a toss of a coin"

Latest update 23 April 2013
Ontario Canada Risk Police Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Toronto man previously convicted for HIV non-disclosure, and whose case is under appeal (R. v. Felix), arrested again

Latest update 9 April 2013
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Musician ordered deported to Zimbabwe because he failed to disclose HIV status to sex partners

Latest update 3 April 2013
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Honduras refugee who worked as a prostitute without telling his clients he had HIV can stay in Canada

Latest update 20 March 2013
Ontario Canada Gay men Migrants Sex workers

Canada: Police do u-turn following press release alleging HIV non-disclosure between gay men, no case to answer

Latest update 27 February 2013
Ontario Canada Police Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

[Update]Canada: More on the Trinidadian migrant case

Latest update 25 November 2012
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Saskatchewan judge’s explanation why he ordered a mandatory HIV test for a spitting incident

Latest update 16 November 2012

The physician ‘ s report was prepared by a duly qualified physician, licensed to practice in the Province of Saskatchewan. His report is in the statutory form A and it includes all of the information requested by the said form.

Saskatchewan Canada Risk Judges Spitting

[Update]Canada: (with documents) Montreal woman prosecuted in revenge, sentenced to a year in the community, acquitted on appeal

Latest update 28 April 2011
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Canada: Quebec gay man arrested, remanded in custody for non-disclosure prior to bareback orgy

Latest update 1 December 2010
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Another gay man in Ontario accused of nondisclosure

Latest update 5 December 2009

   

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Man who threatened mall cops with alleged HIV-infected needle gets eight months jail time

Latest update 15 May 2009
Alberta Canada Needle/syringe

Canada: Ontario woman pleads guilty, gets four years in prison

Latest update 9 March 2009
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Sex workers Women

Canada: Yet another African migrant guilty, this time in BC

Latest update 3 March 2009
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Canada: Googling results in HIV exposure arrest

Latest update 2 March 2009
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Another heterosexual migrant charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 8 January 2009
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Toronto man gets a year in jail for HIV exposure after Crown appeals lenient sentence

Latest update 9 December 2008

An HIV-positive Toronto man found guilty in May of HIV exposure, has had his one year suspended sentence increased to one year in prison, following an appeal by the Crown at the Ontario Court of Appeal. Apparently, “the sentence imposed…

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Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Mabior sentenced to 14 years

Latest update 12 October 2008
Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: HIV-positive hemophiliac with cancer imprisoned for 14 months for HIV exposure

Latest update 25 September 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Ontario man imprisoned for a second time for HIV exposure

Latest update 15 September 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Zambian migrant gets eights years, deportation, for HIV exposure in Winnipeg

Latest update 25 August 2008
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Ontario woman acquitted of criminal HIV exposure

Latest update 15 August 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Canada: Another African migrant ‘guilty’ of HIV exposure, gets seven years

Latest update 2 August 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Saskatchewan plans to prosecute man already convicted in Ontario

Latest update 3 July 2008
Saskatchewan Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Halifax man guilty of HIV exposure

Latest update 20 May 2008
Nova Scotia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Trevis Smith loses appeal

Latest update 15 May 2008
Saskatchewan Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Montreal domestic violence victim guilty of HIV exposure

Latest update 3 May 2008
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

[Update]Canada: Owen Antoine sentenced to five years following one-night stand

Latest update 15 April 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Ryan Handy gets eight months in prison for HIV exposure

Latest update 28 March 2008
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Gay men

Canada: Condom use no defence for HIV exposure liability

Latest update 25 February 2008
Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Women

Canada: HIV exposure charge dismissed following dramatic Ontario courtroom scene

Latest update 5 February 2008

           

Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Gay men

Canada: Winnipeg HIV exposure/transmission trial halted

Latest update 26 November 2007
Manitoba Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: British Columbia man receives 4 1/2 years for HIV exposure; shoddy reporting

Latest update 4 November 2007

     

British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Canada: Ontario woman sentenced to two years for HIV transmission

Latest update 18 August 2007
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual transmission Women

Canada: Supreme Court rules that it is a criminal offence for an HIV-positive person to engage in consensual sex without disclosing their status

Latest update 3 September 1998

   

Canada Alleged sexual exposure

Canada: Supreme court dismisses appeal in case of blood donation

Latest update 6 April 1993
Ontario Canada Blood donation