VANCOUVER- A man who knowingly spread the HIV virus to four women now complains the British Columbia govenrment failed to consistently provide him with the medication needed to keep his virus under control.
Charles Mzite has launched a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, claiming his treatment regime was interrupted 36 times while he was at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre.
Even though the man's complaint was filed a year and a half after the normal deadline to launch a human rights complaint, the tribunal has agreed to hear the case, saying it raises important issues around a vulnerable person.
Mzite was convicted of aggravated sexual assault by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in March 2009, eight years after he moved to Canada from Zimbabwe.
His trial heard he had consensual sex with four women and either didn't tell them he was HIV positive or told them he didn't have HIV.
At least one of the women now has the virus.
