US: Majority of gay US men support criminal non-disclosure laws

The overwhelming majority (70%) of HIV-negative and untested men (69%) in the United States support prosecutions for not disclosing known HIV-positive status before sex that may risk HIV transmission, according to a new study by Keith J. Horvatha, Richard Weinmeyera and Simon Rosser at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  Even more disturbing is the fact 38% of HIV-positive men endorsed criminalisation.

The most worrying finding is that suppport of non-disclosure laws strongly suggested a reliance on disclosure as an HIV prevention method. As I have discussed in HIV and the criminal law, this is unreliable and problematic. 

There's a summary of the study's findings at aidsmap.com and the full text article can be downloaded here.