2.1 Prior to the elections in 2004, the Committee suggested the inclusion of a clause in the Bill criminalising a person's intentional non-disclosure of his or her HIV positive status when engaging in intimate contact with another person. A similar clause was suggested in the case of a person who has a sexually transmissible infection, other than HIV or AIDS. When the adapted Bill was before Cabinet, Cabinet expressed reservations about these provisions. The Committee took note of Cabinet's reservations in this regard and requests the Department to embark on further research, including comparative international trends in this regard, with the view to addressing these reservations and to revert to the Committee as soon as possible.