Monday, October 10, 2005—A New Zealand judge ruled last week that JustinDalley’s decision to wear a condom when he had sex last year with awoman he met online outweighed the “moral” failure of not telling her he had HIV. The ruling,which involved a law requiring disclosure if a partner is “endangered,”was watched closely in New Zealand and beyond. In several U.S. states,you can go to jail for failing to disclose HIV to a sex partner—condomor no condom.  But in the New Zealand case, Judge Susan Thomas wasquoted by the BBC as saying, “The evidence of health experts in thearea is that the use of condoms for vaginal intercourse is sufficientfor the prevention of the transmission of HIV and that this can be metwithout the requirement for discourse.” Dalley’s lawyer argued thatrequiring disclosure could deter people from getting tested.