Stigma: what we have been through.

I will be brief here. HIV positive people are victimised for one reason alone, and that is because the government is reluctant to force compulsory testing and the publication of an HIV national directory.
If this was done, there would be so many of us positive that nobody would feel it necessary to stigmatise anyone. Most of the people who victimise others, are themselves positive. That is FACT.

I personally do not think you should keep silent if you are picked on. If you can afford it, higher some thugs and have the person picking on you sorted out once and for all. Never allow a person, who could be positive himself/herself to victimise you for something that the whole of the the SADC society allows to spread unchecked.