Australia: court orders doctors to pay damages to woman who contracted HIV from her husband.
IN a case that received extensive media coverage, the New South Wales Supreme Court has found two doctors negligent for failing to take steps to make a bride aware that she was at risk as a result of her prospective husband's HIV infection. The court awarded the woman AUD$727,437 in damages. The couple had attended the physicians together to be tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, but had received their test results separately. She subsequently contracted HIV as a result fo unprotected sexual intercourse with him.
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D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D009517:New South Wales; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018454:Spouses