The conviction last week of Steven Boone for attempted murder raises once again the difficult question of how the criminal law should respond to persons living with HIV/AIDS who endanger or even infect others.
Canadian legal academic, Carissima Mathen, argues that 'sexual assault' is preferable to 'attempted murder' in HIV non-disclosure cases
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