By India Annamanthadoo and Richard Elliott (August 10, 2022, 9:55 AM EDT) -- Canada has long been one of the world’s worst offenders when it comes to prosecuting people living with HIV for alleged non-disclosure of their HIV status. Since 1988, there have been more than 220 such prosecutions. Not only are we a world leader by the numbers, we’re charging people with disproportionately harsh offences — in most cases, aggravated sexual assault, even when HIV was not transmitted and there was little to no risk of transmission. And if convicted, a person is automatically added to the sex offender registry for life and, if they are a non-citizen, they are deported....