(CNSNews.com) – In a guide for young people published by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the organization says it opposes laws that make it a crime for people not to tell sexual partners they have HIV. The IPPF's “Healthy, Happy and Hot” guide also tells young people who have the virus that they have a right to “fun, happy and sexually fulfilling lives.”

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

“Some countries have laws that say people living with HIV must tell their sexual partner(s) about their status before having sex, even if they use condoms or only engage in sexual activity with a low risk of giving HIV to someone else,” the guide states. “These laws violate the rights of people living with HIV by forcing them to disclose or face the possibility of criminal charges”...

Religious leaders and AIDS activists told CNSNews.com Tuesday that labeling sex
outside of marriage as sinful or having multiple partners as immoral behavior is
“biased” – something society has “moved beyond.” 

At a telephone news
conference in advance of World AIDS Day, AIDS activist groups and
representatives of various religious groups said that counseling teens and
others to be abstinent and restricting sex to marriage just isn’t “realistic,”
and called on churches and the incoming Obama administration to deal with
HIV/AIDS in a “truthful” and “medically accurate way”...