© Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 1995


Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Newsletter

Volume 2 Number 1 - October 1995


International News

China: New Marriage Law

China has introduced a new law under which persons living with HIV/AIDS may be barred from marrying. The law took effect on 1 June 1995.[1]

The Maternal and Infantile Health Law requires couples planning to wed to pass a series of medical tests. People with sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis and AIDS, may be barred from marrying; violators would be punished. The law also prevents people with serious hereditary diseases from marrying unless they are sterilized or take long-term contraception. Fetuses with hereditary diseases or severe defects are to be aborted.


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ENDNOTES

[1] Reported in the [Australian] HIV/AIDS Legal Link, vol 6, no 2 (June 1995) at 24.