HIV/AIDS and law in Hungary

Introduction: The legal aspects of HIV/AIDS are mirrored by the statistical data. Aim: The aim of the author is to show the effect of HIV/AIDS on today's Hungarian society. Method: Analysis of data issued by the National Center for Epidemiology in Hungary and those to be found in the professional literature, as well as analysis of the Hungarian legal practice. Results: Hungarian courts tend to impose a lighter punishment on a perpetrator diagnosed with AIDS than on a healthy perpetrator. According to the data issued by the Hungarian Epidemiological Center, in 1985, 16 HIV-contaminated persons were registered in Hungary; in 1995, 81, in 2005, 107, whilst in 2015, 201 HIV-contaminated persons were registered in Hungary. In 2005, 10 of the 107 HIV-contaminated persons were anonymous, whilst, in 2015, 37 of the 201 HIV-contaminated persons were anonymous. According to the known data of not anonymous HIV-contaminated persons, the number of males predominates largely over the number of females and this has been the case during the past decades. In Hungary, only a small proportion of the HIV-contaminated persons have died: the number of males predominates over the number of females. Conclusions: As to HIV/ AIDS, latency poses problems in the field of healthcare prevention and legal prevention. It seems to be important to protect data relating to healthcare, though the data protection should not impede the prevention of HIV/AIDS.