[NOTE: LifeLube meant to point you to this important article last week when it was first reported but got caught up and forgot. Our bad.] by via Aidsmap by Edwin J. Bernard
Swiss court accepts that criminal HIV exposure is only 'hypothetical' on successful treatment, quashes conviction
In the first ruling of its kind in the world, the Geneva Court of Justice has quashed an 18-month prison sentence given to a 34-year-old HIV-positive African migrant who was convicted of HIV exposure by a lower court in December 2008, after accepting expert testimony from Professor Bernard Hirschel – one of the authors of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS consensus statement on the effect of treatment on transmission – that the risk of sexual HIV transmission during unprotected sex on successful treatment is 1 in 100,000.
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Swiss court accepts that criminal HIV exposure is only 'hypothetical' on successful treatment, quashes conviction
In the first ruling of its kind in the world, the Geneva Court of Justice has quashed an 18-month prison sentence given to a 34-year-old HIV-positive African migrant who was convicted of HIV exposure by a lower court in December 2008, after accepting expert testimony from Professor Bernard Hirschel – one of the authors of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS consensus statement on the effect of treatment on transmission – that the risk of sexual HIV transmission during unprotected sex on successful treatment is 1 in 100,000.
Read the rest.
Read other LifeLube posts related to the Swiss Declaration - referred to above.
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