Zimbabwe, AIDS Transmission (Roles)

Country To Punish Deliberate HIV Transmitters

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 14th, 1997

Zimbabwe, where an average of 500 people are dying of AIDS every week, introduced July 1, 1997 draft legislation aimed at punishing people who knowingly transmit HIV.

President Robert Mugabe said, when he opened a new session of Parliament, the AIDS pandemic was the single biggest challenge facing his Health Ministry.

In the coming year, the Zimbabwean Parliament is scheduled to consider an amendment to the criminal act to enable courts to penalize deliberate transmission of HIV, spread mostly through sex.

"My government is taking the necessary steps to reorganize and raise the status of AIDS co-ordination," Mugabe told the...

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