Guyana gets it right in choosing not to criminalise transmission of HIV – UNAIDS

The Joint United Nations Team on AIDS in Guyana has congratulated the Special Select Committee of Parliament on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals for choosing not to make the transmission of HIV a criminal act.

The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in a statement hailed the Parliamentary Committee for “its mature and measured decision.”

This latest parliamentary decision clears the