{"id":863,"date":"2009-06-29T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=863"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:08","slug":"can-reckless-behaviour-in-transmiting-hiv-lead-to-a-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/863","title":{"rendered":"Can transmiting HIV be prosecuted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound harsh, but consenting adults of legal age should take responsibility for their own sexual health. Just because you were in a long-term relationship doesn&#8217;t give you protection from HIV. When two people have sex, each participant is responsible for making sure they are happy with the risks they take.<\/p>\n<p>As far as safer sex is concerned, it is always important to assume your partnert is HIV-positive, and then have the sex you are happy with.<\/p>\n<p>For a more in-depth article about the legal aspects of this complicated area <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avert.org\/criminal-transmission.htm\">see this link<\/a> to an article by AVERT.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent online blog by Edwin J Bernard that cover many cases is <a href=\"http:\/\/criminalhivtransmission.blogspot.com\/\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are recently diagnosed, then working through issues related to how you caught HIV with a health counsellor can often help.<\/p>\n<p>This factsheet is about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/the-swiss-statement\">the Swiss Statemen<\/a>t that says HIV positive poeple on effective ART do not transmit HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out that my ex girlfriend was taking heroin and was being paid by other men to have sex. I had no idea what was going on as was told she was working long shifts and that was why she was tired. We were together for about eight years. I was also working long hours all the time and never had any dealings with drugs or prostitution. Because we were together for a long time, so there was no need for protected sex. Now I am HIV-positive and there may be a possibility she knew her status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24738,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/24738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}