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Legal penalties and HIV

Moves to criminalise the deliberate transmission off serious diseases have been welcomed by nurses, although AIDS campaigners tear it could deter people from being tested

JANETTE PINK, the British woman who contracted HIV from her former lover, won a conviction against him last week.

Nursing Standard. 11, 47, 12-12. doi: 10.7748/ns.11.47.12.s27

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