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Edwin J Bernard of the HIV Justice Network.
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Delegates heard that courts often dismissed evidence regarding the excellent
prognosis of patients on HIV therapy and the impact of HIV treatment on the risk of transmission.
People with HIV are being imprisoned after sexual encounters when they did
not disclose their status, even when no transmission occurred. In some
instances, people had been prosecuted even though the type of sex they had
engaged in involved no actual risk of HIV transmission.
More encouragingly, the session was also told that lobbying could lead to
changes in the law.
For instance, Denmark suspended its tough
HIV-specific laws after being presented with scientific evidence about the life
expectancy of people on effective HIV therapy and the impact of treatment as prevention.
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