People in Guyana who have HIV and who knowingly infect others may soon be charged with murder, if the South American country's politicians have their way.
Charges of murder in the first degree should only be lodged if the victim died or became seriously ill, according to opposition legislator Everall Franklin.
Next month a bipartisan committee at the national parliament will debate the proposal.
In the US, a high burden of proof is required to convict people accuse of deliberate HIV transmission. A man in Mississippi was recently charged with murdering a woman by infecting her with the virus and a woman with HIV in Florida was jailed for two years for having unprotected sex with around 200 men.
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