HIV 7 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Cases shaped by HIV, from exposure at a crime scene to partners who hid their status.
- Season 2 · Episode 13
Victims
Someone is shooting paroled sex offenders named on a neighborhood watch flyer, and Stabler is assigned to find the killer of the man who maimed a child in one of his own cases.
- Season 4 · Episode 4
Lust
The murder of a public health doctor in Central Park points first to the HIV patients she tracked and then, after a second killing, to a serial killer, until her husband’s secret life surfaces.
- Season 5 · Episode 20
Lowdown
A Bronx prosecutor found strangled on a prostitution stroll turns out to have been living a hidden life, and the trail leads to the colleague he loved.
- Season 6 · Episode 15
Hooked
A teenager found dead with her cousin’s ID turns out to have been selling sex and acting in pornography, and she was HIV positive.
- Season 7 · Episode 5
Strain
Two gay men carrying a fast-killing strain of HIV are executed and labeled killers, and the hunt for their murderer draws in Fin’s own son.
- Season 10 · Episode 5
Retro
A baby abandoned with untreated AIDS leads SVU to a doctor who denies that HIV causes the disease, and to the families who followed his advice.
- Season 11 · Episode 11
Quickie
A teenager’s murder leads SVU to an anonymous-sex app and a stockbroker who knowingly spreads HIV, and then to the victim who takes revenge on him in court.