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HIV Criminalization Laws and conversations at grassroots in Africa

Conducting conversations on streets of cities in Africa, initiating spontaneous debates on HIV and criminalization at different platforms reveals different characteristics related to HIV and the criminalization surrounding it in Africa. There are those who see voluntary spreading equivalent to someone with an intention to kill others, therefore if apprehended should be subject to court proceedings and if found guilty should be punished. There are those who see voluntary spreading equivalent to someone with an intention to kill others, therefore if apprehended should be processed, a guilty sentence read without due diligence of court proceedings. There are those who look at HIV from a strictly religious point of view and prescribe religious solutions. There are those who look at HIV from a strictly bio-social-medical point of view and prescribe bio-social-medical solutions. There are those who look at HIV from a strictly legal point of view and prescribe

An Open Letter To Chioma Igbokwe Of The Daily Sun Newspaper

Dear Chioma Igbokwe, In the 19th of August, 2017 article titled HIV EPIDEMIC LOOMS you brought to the attention of the readership world a very important issue which, unfortunately is not given its due diligence. HIV/AIDS still looms large on the African continent. It has impacted all ranges of life. It has touched on the ways we deal with our own fears, ills and misfortunes as a collective humanity. HIV has made many of us advocates in one way or another. One common thread for all advocates is the need to eradicate it. Eradicating HIV is also dependent on a chain of actors. It is also dependent on a chain of enablers (or disablers). There are four downstream contexts your article should have mentioned too. Empowering grassroots with sexually active youth to negotiate for safer sex; provision of safer sex prophylactics; addressing an HIV service disparity that is common not only in Nigeria but other African countries; lastly, the average age of the demography you wro

Pushing back against HIV Criminalization Laws in Africa

I have a problem with forced and mandated HIV testing in Africa, simply, because of the swiftness in deploying punitive other than purgative due diligence. This has ramifying effects including inciting animosity in the public in case of unguarded media reporting. Once HIV testing is used to generate court evidence, the legal execution has its mode of operation and any hinderance is easily construed as obstruction of justice which in itself is culpable. When the legal churning wheels turn, it is hard to pluck out the person around whom they turn. Legal handling bumps off the core beneficial health aspects (health care due diligence) inherent in HIV testing. In this situation testing (which may easily be done without counselling) is used to generate court evidence. Not only does this raise an animus toward the health corp but it depicts them as accomplices in the criminalization agenda. An HIV+ve suspicion or history binds one to a criminalized path which assumes one guilty even

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