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Jamal
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[Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
May 16, 2007 - 01:44 AM
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The Andhra Pradesh State Government is planning to make the HIV test mandatory for brides and grooms prior to their marriage to curb the spread of the dreaded disease. The chief minister hinted that the government will bring in a legislation to make HIV test mandatory for brides and grooms before marriage to arrest the spread of the deadly disease. Plans are also
being made to increase the existing number of ART (anti-retroviral
therapy) centres to 23 by next March 2008.
What do you think..will it help in crubbing the HIV + spread or further increase the discrimination against people living with HIV & AIDS
Making HIV test Mandate befor marriage will result in....
decreasing the spread of HIV
(11 votes for 26.19%)
Increasing of discrimination against PLHA
(4 votes for 9.52%)
Both
(27 votes for 64.29%)
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
June 8, 2007 - 01:43 AM
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This is a welcome step and must be implemented all over India.
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
June 11, 2007 - 02:54 AM
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I think this will increse the discrimination. but at the same time i think, partners should eb encouraged to share thier HIV status with each other. often women become the victims because men may not share thier status and lead to women acquiring HIV.
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
June 12, 2007 - 04:40 PM
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You have to feel sorry for those people who will get their lives wrecked and marriages derailed when their partner finds out, but that's still inarguably better than what would happen if the bride found out later after she was already infected and started to get sick...
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
June 28, 2007 - 10:31 AM
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I believe that having a test not only before marriage but before any indulgence in any sexual activity should be mandatory!
It not only reduces that risks of HIV/ AIDS but STIs as a whole.
On the other hand this increases the gap between PLHA.
My conclusion is anybody who is an adult and is sane enough should be able to make their own decisions about taking the test, no one wants to be subjected to mandatory test but it is also important to take the test therefore its upon YOU as an individual and a couple to decide!
Life is all you make it to be, live it like you really own it!
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
July 14, 2007 - 10:16 AM
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Feel free to correct me but unless one agrees that the mandatory testing before marriage is a form of discrimination in itself, I don't see how discrimination against PLHAs would increase. The way I understand it, the testing is a matter of protecting a fellow human being you love, and not preventing people from getting married. In my humble opinion, if the mandatory tests were related to something like getting work then that would be discrimination.
However, I think the fact that people do not want to share their status points out to an already existing serious discrimination which needs to be addressed- before forcing people to expose themselves to stigma from the society through a mandatory test, something possibly worse than failing to get married.
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
July 14, 2007 - 03:48 PM
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simpirre wrote:
Feel free to correct me but unless one agrees that the mandatory testing before marriage is a form of discrimination in itself, I don't see how discrimination against PLHAs would increase. The way I understand it, the testing is a matter of protecting a fellow human being you love, and not preventing people from getting married. In my humble opinion, if the mandatory tests were related to something like getting work then that would be discrimination.
However, I think the fact that people do not want to share their status points out to an already existing serious discrimination which needs to be addressed- before forcing people to expose themselves to stigma from the society through a mandatory test, something possibly worse than failing to get married.
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I think it will all depend with all those involved. However, I think that given the best approach, it will have a better result by not forcing people to reveal their status before marriage but by letting them know the benefits and the rationale of letting themselves going for a test before marriage. That way it will be out of ones intiative rather than a forced idea on ones throat which we all know the consequences.
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
July 22, 2007 - 02:27 PM
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I believe that mandatory should be the proposal to the couple, to take the test before marriage. the couple can afterwards decide together. even though i find it excellent to take the test and be this way certain, that eliminates a lot of the rights of the person infected or probably infected,if it becomes mandatory. in the other hand, the person not infected has the right to protect its health. But what i don't know is that if the test turns positive for someone, will be announced to whom? to both of the couple?
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 2, 2007 - 06:29 AM
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HIV test will assist the affected person to be aware and for not spreading to others. It will also help the affected person to live in harmony
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 6, 2007 - 12:11 AM
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Thanks every one for responding ...
I feel its a matter of clash between rights.....it is the right of an individual to reveal or not to reveal his/her HIV status, infact to go for test is also voluntary decision. But at the same time A person has also the right to know about the individual with whom he/she is going to live/marry.
In my openion, for the larger good; Right of the person to know HIV status of partner is higher, since it is directly related to the life threatning situation for the person.
but definately this will lead to further discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS...
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 9, 2007 - 01:27 AM
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I don't think this will lead to PLHA discrimination because if it is implemented, this matter will be taken as a lighter issue. Lighter issue never leads to discrimination.
But it takes time and yeah before voting for mandatory HIV test before marriage i would definitely think about the person's right on revealing his/her status.
Very confusing issue indeed 
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 11, 2007 - 09:25 AM
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Yes, testing before marriage is crual,for the couples.It will help them to know themselves and to make agreements between them. To take marriage or not.
It is better to know yourself and toknow your fellow so that you may live happly. without that It is going to cause a problem in future because they didn't know each other.
Let us not think much of Discrimination. Let us thing of willingness of living together. Marriage is not a fun.Is the life of two people who has decided to live together no one can ceparate them only death. So those couples must thing twice before marriage. Is better you test than never.
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 17, 2007 - 03:58 AM
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Its 50-50.Making the HIV Test mandatory before marriage will on some level help in decreasing the spread of HIV but it is also a form of discrimanation. You are forcing people to disclose their status to the society and we all have a right to secrecy even though its wrong in this case.
Its a good thing what the government is trying to do but the solution is within ourselves. You as a person or couple should have the tests done before engaging in any sexual activity why wait till marriage to do so??
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 27, 2007 - 11:24 PM
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Education, not discriminatory laws, is the solution to preventing the spread of HIV. Mandatory testing will only lead to further HIV/AIDS stigma (especially for women I suspect) and will not reduce infections because there will be no effective way to enforce it.
Change starts with education not force.
Oh, and people who are HIV positive have the right to get married if they want to (though they also have the responsibilty to be open about their status).
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Re: [Poll] HIV Test Mandatory before marriage?
August 29, 2007 - 05:18 AM
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Dear All
Yes, Let us not think much about stigmation.But let us think much on how to take care their children if they have not tested before. I am living here in Africa, Mbeya Tanzania. Where by most of people are living depending on cultivation using a hand hoe. Is culture to cultivate 5 hectors by hand hoe.If the affected person who has not tested before marriage able to cultivate those hectors? We marry a woman who is able to work. In town perhaps can be marry without testing because the don't deal with hard jobs like this. and sometimes have got employements if your not employed in africa and you have not test HIv you will die within a day due to poor nutrition etc.
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