New Brunswick tracking down men who had unprotected sex after HIV diagnosis

FREDERICTON – New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health says officials are trying to track down about two dozen men who had unprotected sex with a man who was later diagnosed with HIV.

Dr. Eilish Cleary says a New Brunswick man recently tested positive for the virus and officials are now attempting to contact his sexual partners from the last two years.

Cleary says the man frequently used a website called www.manhunt.net that facilitates anonymous sexual encounters.

She says the man and the website have been helpful in trying to track down his sexual partners, though it is a difficult process because people typically log on using aliases rather than their real names.

Her office issued a statement today encouraging people who had unprotected sex with those they don’t know to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.

The Health Department is not identifying the man.