In his commentary on the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions about HIV non-disclosure, Dr. Mark Tyndall hit the nail on the head: the criminal law with respect to HIV non-disclosure is, indeed, “blunt, misinformed, and ineffective.”
Legal Network's Alison Symington's letter to Ottawa Citizen newspaper
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