Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV test

[Disir]

19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial.

"Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, 'are you sure you are not sick or something like that?' Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand."


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I don't see any issue with testing for a deadly disease. I really don't.

 

[Kosh]

Here in the US that would violate someone's rights, but in countries that do not have rights for the people it matters very little..

 

[Disir]

Here in the US that would violate someone's rights, but in countries that do not have rights for the people it matters very little..

There are lots of places that you have to be tested for TB in the states. You have to have your immunization record for schools. You have to have a physical to play sports. This is some deadly crap.

 

[Kosh]

Here in the US that would violate someone's rights, but in countries that do not have rights for the people it matters very little..

There are lots of places that you have to be tested for TB in the states. You have to have your immunization record for schools. You have to have a physical to play sports. This is some deadly crap.

Yes but it would violate someone's rights, this will never happen in the US.

If it did not apply to a far left protected group, then it maybe possible.

 

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Uganda be kidding me...

 

[Disir]

Here in the US that would violate someone's rights, but in countries that do not have rights for the people it matters very little..

There are lots of places that you have to be tested for TB in the states. You have to have your immunization record for schools. You have to have a physical to play sports. This is some deadly crap.

Yes but it would violate someone's rights, this will never happen in the US.

If it did not apply to a far left protected group, then it maybe possible.

It wouldn't happen in the US because people are more than happy to allow HIV cases to rise in the US while bitching about something totally irrelevant.

But. a lot of HIV cases in many countries stem from the mother to baby transmission through mother to child transmission.
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV