Cases

HIV criminalisation cases

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

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Spain: Man sentenced to 9 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 8 September 2011
Spain Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

France: Man sentenced to five years for alleged transmission during one-off unprotected sex encounter in 1999

Latest update 29 March 2011
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Spain: Man living with HIV sentenced to 2 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 21 January 2011
Spain Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

UK: Scotsman pleads guilty to UK’s first-ever charges for HIV exposure

Latest update 20 January 2010

   

Scotland United Kingdom Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

New Zealand: African migrant sentenced to three-and-a-half years for HIV transmission

Latest update 29 November 2009
New Zealand Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Michigan man gets nine months for HIV exposure

Latest update 24 November 2009
Michigan United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

France: Man sentenced to five years for infecting current, former partners and baby

Latest update 16 November 2009
France Alleged sexual transmission Vertical transmission Heterosexual men Other

[Update]US: Minnesota man gets 90 days for HIV exposure; first ever prosecution

Latest update 28 October 2009
Minnesota United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]US: Colorado man gets 15 years in first-ever father-to-child transmission case

Latest update 22 July 2009
Colorado United States Alleged sexual transmission Vertical transmission Heterosexual men Other

[Update]Finland: Appeal court increases Hakkarainen sentence

Latest update 5 June 2009
Finland Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

New Zealand: ‘HIV predator’ may make legal history

Latest update 3 June 2009
New Zealand Alleged sexual transmission Gay men Heterosexual men

Russia: HIV-positive man from Sverdlovsk convicted for biting a policeman, case will be considered by the Prosecutor’s Office

Latest update 20 May 2009
Russian Federation Biting Heterosexual men

UK: Man previousy convicted of reckless HIV transmission jailed again

Latest update 11 May 2009
England United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Australia: Sydney husband gets 4 1/2 years after pleading guilty to infecting wife

Latest update 11 May 2009
New South Wales Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Russia: man from Balabanovo arrested for alleged HIV exposure and drug crimes; police searches for possible victims and questions women he had relationships

Latest update 17 April 2009
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Australia: Bail for African migrant accused in Adelaide

Latest update 24 March 2009
South Australia Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Australia: Man pleads guilty to infecting wife, gets three years

Latest update 15 March 2009
Victoria Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Another Illinois man pleads guilty, gets two years probation

Latest update 9 March 2009
Illinois United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

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

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

US: Tennessee man accused of infecting woman during ‘drug holiday’, confesses to police

Latest update 13 February 2009

A 47 year-old man from Portland, Tennesseee became the 15th person to be prosecuted under Tennessee’s criminal HIV exposure laws this week after he was charged with three counts of criminal exposure to HIV. The details of this case, as…

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Tennessee United States Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Georgia man gets two years for HIV exposure

Latest update 13 January 2009

A 38 year-old man from Macon, Georgia has been jailed for two years and must also serve 200 hours of community service whilst on eight years probation following his release, for having sex with a woman he planned to marry…

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Georgia United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Another heterosexual migrant charged with HIV exposure

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

[Update]US: Charges dropped in Wisconsin ‘HIV exposure’ case

Latest update 17 December 2008
Wisconsin United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

US: New York man faked HIV test, charged with reckless endangerment

Latest update 10 December 2008
New York United States 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]US: Another Michigan man sentenced to 2 months in jail for HIV exposure

Latest update 25 September 2008

     

Michigan United States 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]Australia: Lam Kuoth’s laywers appeal against ‘excessive’ suspended sentence

Latest update 24 August 2008
Victoria Australia Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

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

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

Poland: 34 year-old migrant charged with alleged HIV transmission to 11 women

Latest update 19 July 2008
Poland Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

US: Ohio man serving six years prosecuted again for HIV exposure

Latest update 15 July 2008
Ohio United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

US: Ohio man who disclosed HIV status in court now charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 3 July 2008
Ohio United States 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] Botswana: Judge acquits lawyer accused of HIV exposure

Latest update 2 July 2008
Botswana Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Bermuda: Man pleads guilty, gets 10 years for HIV exposure

Latest update 15 June 2008
Bermuda Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Australia: Sydney man pleads guilty to criminal HIV transmission

Latest update 5 June 2008
New South Wales Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Russia: Tumen man convicted for possible HIV transmission based on medical records and sentenced to 1 year 6 month in prison

Latest update 30 May 2008
Russian Federation 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

Russia: prisoner from Zabaykalye who sprayed his blood into face of prison doctor, will face up to 1-year imprisonment for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 12 May 2008
Russian Federation Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

France: Marseille man facing three years for HIV transmission

Latest update 9 May 2008
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Arkansas man gets 12 years for HIV exposure; faces up to 30

Latest update 2 May 2008
Arkansas United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

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

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

[Updated]US: SC man convicted again for exposing woman to HIV

Latest update 14 April 2008

   

South Carolina United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Australia: Not guilty verdict in Melbourne HIV exposure trial

Latest update 4 April 2008
Victoria Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

[Update]US: Illinois man imprisoned for ten years for HIV exposure (again)

Latest update 29 March 2008
Illinois United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]US: Man gets nine months for HIV exposure in Virginia

Latest update 27 March 2008
Virginia United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

[Update]Australia: Melbourne man not guilty of reckless HIV transmission

Latest update 20 March 2008
Victoria Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Another Missouri man charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 15 February 2008

     

Missouri United States Alleged sexual exposure Gay men Heterosexual men

[Update]Sweden: British man sentenced to 14 years for HIV transmission

Latest update 1 February 2008
Sweden Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

US: Further developments in California civil case

Latest update 28 January 2008
California United States Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Civil cases (non criminal)

US: Illinois man charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 14 January 2008
Illinois United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

US: Kansas man already convicted of HIV exposure in one county convicted again

Latest update 3 December 2007
Kansas United States Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Botswana: Lawyer on trial for sexual HIV exposure

Latest update 3 December 2007
Botswana Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men

Canada: Winnipeg HIV exposure/transmission trial halted

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

US: Missouri man charged with HIV exposure

Latest update 12 November 2007

     

Missouri United States 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

UK: First intentional HIV transmission case in UK?

Latest update 3 October 2007
England United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

New Zealand: Man jailed for HIV exposure and underage sex

Latest update 26 September 2007

   

New Zealand Heterosexual men

Austria: 20-year-old sentenced to 7 months for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 2 July 2007
Austria Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Youth

Serbia: Woman files criminal complaint against husband for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 2 September 2005
Serbia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

UK: Man sentenced to 5 years in Scotland for alleged “reckless transmission”

Latest update 17 November 2001
Scotland United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Cyprus: Cypriot fisherman sentenced to 15 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 August 1997
Cyprus Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men

Bermuda: Man sentenced to 14 years for alleged HIV transmission under new changes to the Criminal Code

Latest update 6 May 1995
Bermuda Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men