HIV Epidemic in Southern Africa.

I feel that governments in Southern Africa have not fully understood the impact of HIV on such as Training costs, Economy, taxation, medical costs, family structure, etc. This epidemic was very easy to stop and still is but nobody wants to be seen to be doing anything about it.

A reasonable government should introduce compulsory testing for all citizens and those who choose to visit the country. each should then get either a green card for negative or a red card for positive. All red card holders can then occupy a certain part of the country while the green card holders occupy another. The Red card holder should not be allowed to reproduce. Only the green card holders can reproduce.

If it found the people with mismatching cards had sex between them, then both get punished but the Green card holder gets more punishment because he/she has something to lose and should not take the risk.

Seeing that in Zimbabwe for example, the number of HIV positive people is very high, The economy will not be affected at all. The HIV town will just run smoothly by HIV positive people.

Before anyone can marry, they must satisfy the registrar that they are both negative or both positive and sterilised.

All green card holders must be tested once every 6 months and rellocated as necessary. The data is then published in a National HIV Negative directory which is dated and valid only for six months. If you fancy a boy/man/girl/woman, you would be required by law to first check that their name appears on the list and that the directory used is less than six month old.

This scheme would please a lot of women in the SADC region seeing that it is men who spread the virus through promiscuity. Working as a sex worker for many years, I found that most clients were married. Most did not just visit me, but visited other sex workers as well, so if they did not get the virus from me they would get it from someone else. A much higher proportion of sex workers in the region are positive campared to the general public. Also most black men hate condoms, even when the condoms are freely available.

The government should give financial incentives for young people who marry early for example whan they are at university or college. They can then start serving up for their house. If one of the couple should test positive after receiving money, then they must pay it back.

All pregnant women and newly born babies must be tested and recorded.

Those who develop full blown AIDS should be cared for in terms of food and other supplies to manage their pain, but should not be given ARV treatment. I have been on ARV treament for seven years and you cannot tell that I have the virus. Left to their own divices, the men will continue having sex even in the protected towns. Without ARV that group will be the last to be infected.

The result would be that the men stop going with sex workers or other women.
This with HIV would stop visiting the country
The use of condoms would go up.

Within 8-9 years there would be no HIV in the country.
The cost of the scheme would be a lot less than the cost of the deaths of 4000 per week in Zimbabwe added to the cost of training replacements for those who have died,

This scheme would force each and every citizen to take direct responsibility for their sexual safety, and not leave it to chance as they do now. With that everyone over the age of 15 for boys and 14 for girls would be required by law to go and collect a free pack of condoms every week. If you are found at any time without a ready supply of condoms on your person, you would be subject to a fine.

Rapists would automatically qualify for a sex change operation, to make sure they can never infect anyone again.

That is what a responsible government should be doing.
But instead we have (Zimbabwe)
4000 deaths per week
56% of the army and police infected
35% of the teachers infected
23%-25% of the whole population infected

Lesotho and Swaziland and Botswana are a lot worse.