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Count it a leftover of the AIDS scare in the 1980s: Florida law treats those who knowingly transmit HIV different than any other sexually transmitted disease.
But a bill advancing through the Florida House could de-stigmatize HIV without decriminalizing irresponsible transmission entirely.
“There’s a longstanding stigma with respect to this based on a years-ago understanding as opposed to current health and medical science on the disease,” state Rep. Nicholas Duran said.
He credits it to law written in a time when people worried spitting or sharing a toilet seat with an HIV-positive individual. Read More