Kenyans React To South African Bill Seeking To Have HIV+ People Marked Near Their Private Parts! Would They Accept That In Kenya?
After the xenophobic killings, South Africa is in the headlines once again after President Jacob Zuma signed into law a bill seeking to have HIV+ people tattooed near their private parts in what is said is an aim to curb the rising cases of HIV infection.
The South African leader said that the bill would help to identify people with HIV and protect those who cannot abstain from having sex.
While everybody is airing their views over the same, many Kenyans seem to be reading from the same script.
Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko posed this simple question to Kenyans whether they would allow HIV positive persons to be marked for easy identification to avoid infecting others.
While very few agreed, these are the funny reactions majority of them gave. Find out why corruption was mentioned largely in the reactions.
Sonko asked:
ALL HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE WOULD BE MARKED NEAR THEIR GENITALS
President Zuma signed a bill that seem to be the greatest step in history of trying to combat HIV. From now on every person who gets tested and found to be HIV positive would not just get counselling and medication. They would also get a mark in a form of a tattoo near their genital according to the bill singed by the president.
“The mark is to protect those who can’t say no to sex. I mean if you can’t read between the lines you should read between the legs because that’s where the status would be tatted. The choice to be HIV positive is now in your hands or your genitals for that matter….We also encourage those who had been living with the virus to go to the nearest public hospitals to get their status tatted in”. Said Jacob Zuma after signing the bill and drinking his ARV’s.
WILL MARKING ALL HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE REDUCE ITS PREVALENCE RATE? If it is in Kenya would you PASS such a law it?
And this is how Kenyans reacted:
Jimmy Muchoki its not fair !!!not everyone who is HIV+ve is immoral.some were born +ve others infected by rapist
Claritah Ochieng Hell No!!!!! 1.HIV Is just a decease like anyother n its not transmitted via sex only..
2.Again not all deaths are caused by it..there’s cancer..accidents Ebola.. Bla bla bla.
3. Tattoos are against tha bible Koran.
4. If u r not infected u r affected.
5. LET H.I.V+ PEOPLE BE!!!!!!! PERIOD.
Muriungi Gikundi Do you remember Zuma slept with a +ve lady while knowing very well she was +ve?He claimed he bathed with cold water to prevent infection.So,how would a tatoo had helped him?
Oneko John Most and at large all Kenyans don’t see at night. They turn off the lights before sex. That’s the worst suggestion
Gerald Kaihura Sure nowadays nothing surprises me about South Africa, I miss Madiba who was the only sane black leader since the end of apartheid rulers! Stupidity I see in the present leadership and majority of black South Africans is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. This idea won’t help, and will make matters worse by people not willing to get tested. The best solution is educating the majority of south Africans who seem to be the most ignorant people in Africa.
Kip Sigei What an idea! May be we should pass a bill in parliament to tattoo corrupt people in their foreheads… brilliant!
Bill Ruthi We are going to work with the assumption that this is real. How would carving possibly help? Oh,was this not the same Zuma who became the butt of jokes when he said he had washed off AIDs with soap after a sexual encounter?
Caroliyn Mwangi say to b honest sio mbaya..kwanza these ARV ndio zinaharibu.mtu anajua ako positive akitumia dawa anakaa sawa anaanza kueneza akijua…let pple b marked!!thats why sex has become so casual coz somepeople are doing it with a purpose..to spread it fast.ladies are sleeping with their friends boyfriends/husbands to infect them so as to infect their friends indirectly
Odongo Dan Mbogah In Jesus name am against stigmatization.. am fighting for them yet somebody has started impacting that devilish idea in Africa noo..#say_no_to_stigmatization
