Disclosing HIV status can address reckless behaviour-MoH

Should it happen that the new health bill is approved as it is, HIV persons will be expected by law to disclose their HIV status to those that they are likely to infect, being their sexual partners and caregivers.

"It has become clear in the management of the HIV epidemic that while messages of safe sex and counselling to support and assist those infected or affected by the virus are given, there have been many instances where sexual contacts, caregivers and others have been knowingly placed at risk of infection, without their knowledge," she said.