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16 May 2018
California decriminalized knowingly exposing others to HIV to encourage people to get tested, as criminalization discouraged testing.

But just as a refresher, the reason that they did that was because part of that law, I mean, it has to be, is that intent has to be there. And so if you... Don't know your status and you give it to somebody, then you can't be held accountable in a court of law because you didn't know your status. And people would probably be more scared to find out because then the test would be on record and it would prove that they did know that they had it or something like that. And instances where even if you use protection, a condom could tear or something like that. There are situations like that. People have done studies and they've figured out that... The end result of criminalizing having HIV and passing it on to somebody is that people don't get tested. Right. And so, in order to try and work against that, they decriminalized it.