Belarus: Woman who did not engaged in HIV care, sentenced to 5 years in case of vertical transmission

Bolivia: Criminal complaint to be filed against pregnant woman for refusing treatment

Peru: Man sentenced to six and half years in prison for alleged HIV transmission to his partner and daughter in second case of HIV criminalisation in Peru

Belarus: Woman under criminal investigation for vertical transmission

Russia: Two women face police investigation for not preventing HIV transmission to their newborns

 

 

Kazakhstan: Man sentenced to 4 years for allegedly transmitting HIV to his partner and indirectly to their child via breastfeeding

Austria: HIV denialist woman sentenced in Graz to 14 months in prison for transmitting HIV to her baby

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

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

US: Florida woman guilty of mother-to-child HIV transmission

In what appears to be the first successful case of a criminal prosecution for mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the US (a Canadian woman was prosecuted under similar circumtances in 2006), a Florida woman has been sentenced to two years’ probation after she pleaded guilty to felony child neglect.

She had faced up to 15 years in prison, but “prosecutors agreed to the deal because sending her to prison would significantly hinder her ability to care for him financially in the future.”