Thomson Reuters Foundation: Kenya court urges change to law criminalizing women who pass HIV to baby
“Human rights groups have welcomed moves to change a Kenyan law passed to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, which criminalizes pregnant women who pass HIV/AIDS to their babies, saying it discouraged people from finding out their status. The 2006 law says that a person who knows they are HIV positive must tell ‘any sexual contact’ of their status in advance and could be jailed for seven years if they ‘knowingly and recklessly’ placed another person at risk of being infected…” (Migiro, 3/31).