OTTAWA - HIV activists say there is mounting frustration in communities affected by the virus, amid near-silence from the federal government nearly 10 years after the Liberals pledged to reform laws surrounding HIV disclosure.

"We're coming up on a decade," said Muluba Habanyama, head of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization. "There definitely has been some exhaustion."

Canadians living with HIV can be prosecuted for not disclosing their status to sexual partners, even when they are taking prescription drugs that the Public Health Agency of Canada says renders HIV "untransmittable" to someone without the virus.

The HIV Legal Network says more than 220 people have been charged in Canada for allegedly not disclosing their HIV status since 1989.

The Liberals have been promi

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