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The Dangers Of Disclosure: How Hiv Laws Harm Domestic Violence Survivors, Courtney Cross
The Dangers Of Disclosure: How Hiv Laws Harm Domestic Violence Survivors, Courtney Cross
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People living with HIV or AIDS must decide whether, how, and when to disclose their positive status. State laws play an outsized role in this highly personal calculus. Partner notification laws require that current and former sexual partners of individuals newly diagnosed with HIV be informed of their potential exposure to the disease. Meanwhile, people who fail to disclose their positive status prior to engaging in sexual acts-even acts that carry low to no risk of infection-can be prosecuted and incarcerated for exposing their partners to HIV. Although both partner notification laws and criminal HIV exposure laws were ostensibly created …