Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Bloemfontein, South Africa. edcameron@justice.gov.za.
ABSTRACT: The widespread phenomenon of enacting HIV-specific laws to criminally punish transmission of, exposure to, or non-disclosure of HIV, is counter-active to good public health conceptions and repugnant to elementary human rights principles. The authors provide ten reasons why criminal laws and criminal prosecutions are bad strategy in the epidemic.