Earlier this week an HIV positive man was charged with deliberately infecting people with the virus over a six year period.

It is believed there could be dozens of unknowing victims in the community.

Disturbingly, it appears that the Department of Human Services was warned 5 years ago, in 2001, about the alleged actions of the man but it appears to have done nothing.

In Victoria it is a criminal offence to knowingly or recklessly spread the HIV infection and authorities have the power to detain such a person.

Bronwyn Pike has some questions to answer about this, namely:

• How many times was DHS warned about the man’s alleged behaviour?

• Did DHS attempt to contact him?

• Has DHS co-operated with the police in their attempts to contact the man’s other alleged victims?

• Why did DHS not attempt to warn his alleged victims?

• Why did DHS not inform police that they had been warned about this man’s actions?

• If DHS believed him to be acting improperly why did they make no move to detain him?

• How long has Health Minister Bronwyn Pike known about this?

But most importantly of all;

• Has DHS received any other warnings from members of the public about someone allegedly spreading the HIV virus?
• What has DHS done about them?