This document provides an overview of the current laws and policies governing HIV non-disclosure in Canada. Sections include:
- A legal obligation to disclose HIV-positive status to a sexual partner in some circumstances
- What does “realistic possibility” of transmission mean? When is there no legal obligation to disclose?
- Recent developments in law and policy
- Federal and provincial developments in prosecutorial policy
- Sex with a suppressed viral load
- Sex with a condom
- Sex with a low viral load (and no condom)
- Oral sex
- The science of HIV in the context of the criminal law
- Why are people charged with aggravated sexual assault for consensual sex?
- Why is HIV criminalization considered harmful?
- International guidance on HIV and the criminal law
- HIV prosecutions in Canada
- Community mobilization for change: the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization