Should the willful transmission of HIV be treated as attempted murder?

The diagnosis of HIV is one of the most disturbing findings there is. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the virus that causes AIDS. This virus is passed from one person to another through blood-to-blood and sexual contact (Cichocki, 2012). Sex is the most common way of passing on this disease. With the rapid increase of HIV positive people throughout the country, researchers are looking further into why it is becoming such a prevalent disease. There have been cases brought into court of diagnosed people spreading this dreadful disease to their sex partners on purpose. The judicial system is trying to pass this as an attempted murder charge.
Attempted murder is when a person is purposely engaged in conduct, which is intended to cause the death of the victim (Attempted, 92). When a person diagnosed with HIV progresses to AIDS they are basically given a death sentence because this disease has no cure. Unfortunately there are people in this world who have unprotected sex with the specific purpose of spreading this awful disease. The victims are exactly that, victims, they don’t know that the person they just slept with infected them with a death sentence. The judicial system should pass a law against the willful transmission of HIV because the person contracting the disease is totally unaware of the potential danger to which they have been exposed.
The harsh, life changing effects of HIV and AIDS are well known and widely understood across the United States today. Regardless, the spread of the disease has not slowed down neither nationally nor globally and without a cure in sight. We are now forced to rely only on preventative education and intensive drug treatments for those who are living with the disease day to day. For those infected, the battle does not end with the physical symptoms