Public Health Bill retains 'discriminatory' clauses

Friday, March 29, 2013

Parliament has retained controversial clauses in the Public Health Bill that, critics charge, trample on the rights of people living with HIV and entrench stigma and discrimination.

Minister of Health Reverend Doctor John Seakgosing yesterday presented the controversial bill for the committee stage, and opposed almost all clauses legislators wanted amended.

One of the contentious clauses, which opposition legislators Isaac Mabiletsa and Nehemiah Modubule wanted scrapped, seeks to make an offence the known transmission of HIV to any "sexual contact, care giver or any person with whom sharp objects are shared."

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