It has been less than 40 years since a physician first described the disease that would become known as AIDS, but treatment and prevention of HIV-related illnesses have advanced by leaps and bounds. In , if a young adult newly diagnosed with HIV in the United States has access to adequate medical care, he or she has the same life expectancy as an HIV-negative person.
Routine screening of pregnant women and follow-up with appropriate treatment means that almost all children born to HIV-positive mothers are HIV-negative. Grant was diagnosed with HIV in October It is not known whether the partner became infected with the virus. Grant faces felony charges. One can hope that Grant does not face the same punishment that befell Nick Rhoades of Idaho. Rhoades was convicted of not notifying a partner about his HIV-positive status and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration.
Never mind that the partner did not contract HIV from his contact with Rhoades or that Rhoades used a condom and that, because he was taking antiretroviral drugs, his viral load was so low that the chances of transmitting the virus, even without a condom, were almost zero. In other words, he did everything in his power to avoid transmitting HIV to another person. After Rhoades served part of his sentence, the sentence was reduced to probation, but, unless the laws change, Rhoades must remain on the Idaho sex offender registry for the rest of his life.
So far, California is the only state that treats not telling sexual partners about your HIV diagnosis as a misdemeanor; in every other state, it is a felony. As current scientific advances have made HIV a much more manageable and preventable condition, laws should reflect the scientific reality, instead of being based on an outdated stigma.
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