California lawmakers want to repeal HIV criminalization laws

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 22:41 in Health & Medicine

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Exposing a person to HIV is treated more seriously under California law than infecting someone with any other communicable disease, a policy some lawmakers say is a relic of the decades-old AIDS scare that unfairly punishes HIV-positive people based on outdated science....

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