Originally published April 13 2005
Michael Dingake wants people to confront AIDS and the stigma surrounding AIDS victims
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
From the first case of AIDS discovered in 1985 in Botswana, AIDS has spread throughout the world and it shows no signs of stopping. Since Africa was slow to respond, the continent needs to go on the offensive against this disease and root it out if Africa is to survive. One of the first issues to face is the negative stigma that all AIDS sufferers face. Fortunately, the courts are beginning to punish employers who discriminate against employees with AIDS and AIDS patients are receiving better treatment. However, things reached a turning point when Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi announced that their own children died of AIDS.
We are aware of the havoc played by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
We know also the fact that the war against this pandemic needs to be intensified as the enemy does not appear to be contemplating a retreat.
How long this war is going to last is anybody's guess.
It promises to become the most protracted war in memory, claiming more lives than have been claimed by all combined wars hitherto.
The first patient diagnosed with AIDS was in 1985, in Botswana.
It is 20 years since we have been facing this most deadly invasion, out of the blue.
Although we were sluggish in mobilising our defence and going on the offensive against the enemy, we have now sounded a bugle for resistance.
The trenches are being dug and reinforcements are around the corner, we hope, to rout the enemy.
Legislation has been advocated to fight the AIDS stigma at the workplace.
Even without this legislation, the Industrial Court has made very commendab1e decisions against employers who dismissed employees because of their AIDS condition.
One often wonders whether there ought not to be legislation to punish those who infect others with AIDS.
Killing of one human being by another is a crime.
Why is it not a crime for one killing another with AIDS?
Why is it wrong to kill another person with a knife, an axe, a gun, car or poison and not wrong to kill another person with lovemaking?
Mangosutho Buthelezi and Nelson Mandela recently broke the taboo of silence on death by AIDS, when on the occasion of their children's funerals, they let it be known why their beloved children had died!
I hope we take our cue from them and treat AIDS as any other disease.
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