The Norwegian penal Code 155, is very controversial.

Tilo is smiling. He has found his equilibrium again. The situation was quite different five years ago for the 35-year-old gay man. Tilo contracted HIV at the age of 16 after his first sexual experience with a man due to a torn condom. Then he became entangled in criminal proceedings in Munich following an accusation of having intentionally attempted grievous bodily harm.

“I Wanted to Stop This Man”

Rita is a self-confident, attractive 50-year-old woman. She works in international product management. She spent her last holiday on a tent safari in Africa, the continent that she likes to visit time and again. Bernd Aretz spoke with her.

'What if you could witness a face-to-face confrontation between a man living with HIV and the sex partner accusing him of not revealing his status? Wouldn't you like to be a fly on that wall? The fireworks could be mighty, as emotions raged between the  accuser and the positive person trying to defend his actions. What might that meeting look like, exactly?'

(text extract from Mark S.King's video blog)

Former Director of the National AIDS Coordinating Committee working in Trinidad and Tobago, Amery Browne is currently a Member of Parliament in Opposition. He was formerly a Government Minister with responsibility for the policy direction for the social sector.

Jan Albert is Professor of Infectious Diseases and has worked at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI). Currently he works as an HIV researcher at the Karolinska Institute. He has been an expert witness in several trials regarding HIV transmission.

"HIV is interesting from a scientific point of view, the organism itself, but it’s also important and meaningful work. I’m interested in the areas where research, patient care and public health overlap.

Lomcebo Dlamini, Swaziland. Lawyer and Activist, Women in Law, Southern Africa (WLSA).

“As a country we’re really struggling with what to do with HIV from a legal perspective—not only the criminal lawyer. There was initially a panic and a lack of understanding of the issues—a hard line taken by the criminal law in terms of wanting to punish HIV transmission under things like ‘attempted murder’.  But overtime and with the additional education that has been around, I think we have moved from that extreme position.

Marama Pala, an executive director from New Zealand, discovered that her former partner was HIV positive when she saw him on the front page of a newspaper article entitled 'Face of Fear'.  

Chrispine Sibande, is a lawyer and Deputy Director for Legal Services of the Malawi Human Rights Commission.

Milena Stevanovic from Skopje, Macedonia, was a member of a medical team that was on duty in November 2008 when the police issued a court warrant to test arrested street commercial sex workers for STIs.

"In November 2008, the Ministry of Interior began a campaign to eradicate the so-called ‘socio-pathological occurrence of male and female individuals giving sexual services for money.’