Should HIV positive individuals be legally obligated to inform their partners?

With all the public talk about pride parades, gay rights and so on taking place in Sweden at the present i found an interesting article regarding an interview RFSL, Sweden's single largest LGBT advocacy organization, had with influential people. When they questioned the leader of the main center-right Moderate party she mentioned that she thought that the "duty to inform" law should perhaps be abolished for people infected with HIV. What she was referring to is these paragraphs from the "law on infectious disease":

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1 § Everyone shall by attention and reasonable precautions contribute to the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases. 2 § Anyone who knows or has reason to believe that he or she is carrying an infectious disease is bound to take the measures necessary to protect others against the risk of infection. Anyone who knows that he or she is carrying a disease dangerous to the public is obligated to provide information about the infection to other people he or she comes into contact with where a considerable risk of transmission may occur.

HIV is considered to be "a disease dangerous to the public" so anyone who is infected is obligated to inform their sexual partners. Without going into how effective or ineffective such a legal obligation is i find it fairly reasonable that they inform any of their partners beforehand.

I guess it might in practice make them out to be more undesirable partners and something of pariahs but i don't know about that.

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