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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

Rainbow Networks Africa (RANA)

The Founder Organizations RAINBOW NETWORKS AFRICA RAINBOW NETWORKS AFRICA is a campaign to start and maintain conversations and action around: HIV Laws and Gender expansive issues in Africa. People, participation, programming and policy are the four for pillars on which our activities revolve. We seek to engage people in taking charge of their settings to own change. We profile community activities around pushback, contest degrading HIV Laws or negotiate possibilities for dialogue and reversal of conversation and policy institutionalizing stigma and discrimination on the African continent. We work with social, cultural, economical and traditional institutions in Africa such as: African Parliament, African Union, Eastern African Social-political entities, Western African Social-political entities, Southern African Social-political entities, Northern African Social-political entities; CBOs; Universities; and CSOs Organization Development and Mainstream

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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