Law must deal with prisons' sex - BONELA :: Mmegi Online

FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Network on Ethics, Laws and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) says that HIV positive couples are entitled to have children if they are able and willing because, at the end of the day it is an issue of human rights.

Legal Officer at BONELA, Uyapo Ndadi, said this at a three day workshop held in Francistown at Tati River Lodge yesterday.

The reproductive issue was just one of the advocacy issues by BONELA that was tackled at the workshop. Ndadi says that women living with HIV have been publicly blamed several times by authority figures for getting pregnant while their male partners were left alone."We say they have a right to found families or procreate, but the government says that the right should be extended to them," he said. Ndadi says that the government should not be against women living with HIV conceiving as long as they understand their status.

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