Overview
There are no statutes explicitly criminalising HIV transmission or ‘exposure’ in Hong Kong.
A short undated report by the Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS suggested there had been several HIV cases in Hong Kong, including four cases of alleged ‘exposure’ to syringes containing blood, three of which resulted in conviction. In the first, a man allegedly threatened a taxi driver with a blood-filled syringe and was given a three and a half year sentence, although he did not appear to be living with HIV. In the second case, a man received the same penalty after allegedly injuring a girl with a syringe. An HIV test was undertaken on the girl, although it is not clear whether the man was actually living with HIV. The third case involved an attack on a police officer and resulted in a sentence of two months’ imprisonment. As the details of these cases are sparse, it is not clear under which laws they were prosecuted.