I’m reading an article for my evolution class about using phylogenetic analysis to trace source strains of HIV in criminal cases where HIV-positive defendants knowingly had sex with multiple women and transmitted the virus. Shit, dude! It’s like an episode of SVU.
And then of course if this was an episode of SVU, after the guy is found guilty, the team will be faced with the ethical ramifications of putting away an HIV-positive man. An activist group will call for his release while citing basic human rights (you’re saying people infected with HIV aren’t allowed to have sex anymore??? Why must they be forced to disclose that kind of information? Right to privacy!). Then at the end of the episode, a woman previously seen in the episode as a potential witness (because she had sex with the HIV-positive guy but refused an HIV test) is caught having sex with some other poor dude, and when Olivia asks if this woman is sure she is negative, the woman will say that she never got tested and never will because if she doesn’t know then she can’t be charged with a crime (no criminal intent, anyways…criminal negligence, maybe). The episode ends with Olivia looking appalled.
Um actually this episode probably already exists
